World Made of Fire - Softcover

"A wonderful and powerful novel . . . Mark Childress is a novelist of astonishing gifts."
--Pat Conroy

"THAT RAREST OF FINDS, AN UNSENTIMENTAL COMING-OF-AGE STORY, the novel is also an engrossing mystery. . . . We couldn't ask for more."
--San Francisco Chronicle

"Mark Childress is a writer of almost uncanny stylistic ability and clear vision. His eye for detail is extraordinary . . . makes you want to holler oh yeah! like a guy who's gotten religion at a riverside camp meeting."
--Stephen King

"Mr. Childress writes his haunting novel with poetic cadences in brief, intense chapters. . . . He is an author of imagination. . . . Stella's coming of age in grief and loneliness is drawn with graceful authenticity."
--The New York Times Book Review

Mark Childress was born in 1957 in Monroeville, Alabama and grew up in Ohio, Indiana, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Alabama. After graduation from the University of Alabama in 1978, Childress was a reporter for The Birmingham News, Features Editor of Southern Living magazine, and Regional Editor of The Atlanta Journal and Constitution. Childress is the author of six novels: "A World Made of Fire" (Knopf, 1984), "V For Victor" (Knopf, 1988) "Tender" (Harmony, 1990), "Crazy in Alabama" (Putnam, 1993), and "Gone for Good," (Knopf, 1988) and "One Mississippi," published in July 2006 by Little, Brown & Co. His articles and reviews have appeared in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Times of London, San Francisco Chronicle, Saturday Review, Chicago Tribune, Philadelphia Inquirer, Travel and Leisure, and other national and international publications. Childress wrote the screenplay of the Columbia Pictures film "Crazy in Alabama," an official selection of the Venice and San Sebastian film festivals. He lives all over the place, currently in New York City.