Will Allison

Will Allison

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CHRISTOPHER PURDY INTERVIEWS WILL ALLSION

Will Allison’s new novel “What You Have Left” has been lauded by the New York Times and is a Barnes and Noble Discover New Writers choice and a Border’s Original Voices choice for 2007. His short stories have been published in Cincinnati Review, Interview and Glimmer Train. Born in South Carolina, Will Allison holds the MFA degree from the Ohio State University’s Creative Writing program, where his teachers included Lee K. Abbott and Michelle Herman. He is at work on a new novel for the Free Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster. See www.willallison.com

Praise for “What You Have Left”:
“The moving account tells of a South Carolina family struggling to survive despite a mother’s death, a father’s abandonment and a grandfather’s battle with Alzheimer’s disease—and a host of risky behaviors by others left behind.”
–Columbus Dispatch, 6/26/07

“Tender, smart and efficiently told…Raw boned, heartfelt prose.”
–Kirkus Reviews (starred review) 3/1/07

“A remarkable, understated novel…Allison has a precocious knack for detail…and for plain, old fashioned storytelling.”
–Entertainment Weekly (an EW pick) 6/8/07