{"id":2424,"date":"2013-07-15T14:47:25","date_gmt":"2013-07-15T21:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2424"},"modified":"2018-08-02T10:17:09","modified_gmt":"2018-08-02T17:17:09","slug":"knight-michael","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2424","title":{"rendered":"KNIGHT, MICHAEL, 1969-"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Novelist; professor of creative writing.\u00a0 Born December 15, 1969, Mobile. B.A., Hampden-Sydney College; M.A., University of Southern Mississippi; MFA, University of Virginia.\u00a0\u00a0Professor of \u00a0Creative Writing and Director of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Publishes short stories and reviews in periodicals, as well as novels.\u00a0 Winner of the John and Renee Grisham Emerging Southern Writers Award; the New Writers Award from the Fellowship of Southern Writers; the PEN\/Hemingway Foundation Special Citation for Fiction, the Henfield Foundation Award for Fiction;\u00a0 the Alabama Library Association Award for the Best Fiction Work, 2013 (for <em>The Typist<\/em>); Robert Penn Warren Prize for Excellence in Fiction, 2013.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>University of Tennessee website; Contemporary Authors online.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publications;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Divining Rod.\u00a0 Penguin Group, 1999.<\/p>\n<p>Dogfight, and Other Stories.\u00a0 Penguin Group, 1998.<\/p>\n<p>Goodnight, Nobody. Grove\/Atlantic, 2004.<\/p>\n<p>The Holiday Season.\u00a0 Grove\/Atlantic, 2007.<\/p>\n<p>The Typist. Grove\/Atlantic, 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography; Novelist; professor of creative writing.\u00a0 Born December 15, 1969, Mobile. B.A., Hampden-Sydney College; M.A., University of Southern Mississippi; MFA, University of Virginia.\u00a0\u00a0Professor of \u00a0Creative Writing and Director of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Publishes short stories and reviews in periodicals, as well as novels.\u00a0 Winner of the John and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-j-l"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2424"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8551,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2424\/revisions\/8551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}