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David Payne is an American novelist and memoirist. He is the author of five novels and a memoir. His first novel won the Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship Award.
David Payne is the NY Times Notable author of five novels and a memoir, Barefoot to Avalon, which Jay McInerney calls, “one of the most powerful and penetrating memoirs I’ve ever read; it is fiercely honest, deeply engaging, and utterly heartbreaking.”
David Payne is the NY Times Notable author of five novels and a memoir, Barefoot to Avalon, which Jay McInerney calls, “one of the most powerful and penetrating memoirs I’ve ever read; it is fiercely honest, deeply engaging, and utterly heartbreaking.” “I begin with what may seem a bold observation: David Payne is the most gifted ...
He has written five novels-- Confessions of a Taoist on Wall Street, Early From the Dance, Ruin Creek, Gravesend Light, Back to Wando Passo--and a memoir, Barefoot to Avalon: A Brother's Story, named An Amazon Best Book and a Kirkus Reviews' Best Non-Fiction Book of 2015.
"I begin with what may seem a bold observation: David Payne is the most gifted American novelist of his generation. Ruin Creek is the best new novel I've read this year. As in Early from the Dance, he sets his literary table on the Carolina Outer Banks, a literary territory as palpable in these pages as. the Salinas Valley in John Steinbeck's."
Dec 11, 2023 · I was a student at the low-residency MFA program at Queens University in Charlotte North Carolina in 2013 when I asked David Payne about the memoir he was working on that would become Barefoot to Avalon — was finding the transition from fiction to nonfiction difficult?
David Payne is the critically acclaimed author of five novels and a memoir, Barefoot to Avalon. He attended Philips Exeter Academy and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His books have been translated into many languages and have been international bestsellers.
