February 26, 2002
On Wednesday, February 26, 2002, Tech's chapter of Sigma
Tau Delta, sponsored a reading by author Tom Franklin. Tom Franklin was born in Clark County, Alabama and lived
his childhood in a small town called Dickinson, population
300 or so. He received his B.A. amd M.A. degrees from the
University of South Alabama in Mobile and his M.F.A. in
fiction writing from the University of Arkansas. His stories
and essays have been published in Quarterly West,
The Black Warrior Review, Oxford American, and
anthologized in New Stories of the South, and Best
Mystery Stories of the Century. His first collection,
Poachers, was published by William Murrow in 1999,
and the title novella won the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best
Mystery Story. Tom has won an Arkansas Arts Council Grant
and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He is currently on leave from
Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois -- where he is
Writer-In-Residence -- and is this year's John and Renee
Grisham Writer-In-Residence at Ole Miss. He is writing a
novel, Hell at the Breech, to be released next year from
Harper Collins. at Ole Miss.p
