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Michael Knight


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Fiction, Southern Fiction


Michael Knight is the author of the novels The Typist and Divining Rod, the short story collections Eveningland, Goodnight, Nobody, and Dogfight and Other Stories, and the book of novellas The Holiday Season. His novel, The Typist, was selected as a Best Book of the Year by The Huffington Post and The Kansas City Star, among other places, and appeared on Oprah’s Summer Reading List in 2011. His short stories have appeared in magazines and journals like The New Yorker, Oxford American, Paris Review and The Southern Review and have been anthologized in Best American Mystery Stories, 2004 and New Stories from the South: The Year’s Best 1999, 2003, 2004 and 2009. Knight teaches creative writing at the University of Tennessee and lives in Knoxvi ...more

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Average rating: 3.62 · 2,440 ratings · 421 reviews · 10 distinct works • Similar authors
Eveningland: Stories
4.02 avg rating — 591 ratings — published 2017 — 6 editions
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The Typist
3.68 avg rating — 618 ratings — published 2010 — 8 editions
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At Briarwood School for Girls
3.06 avg rating — 703 ratings — published 2019 — 10 editions
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Dogfight: And Other Stories
4.01 avg rating — 153 ratings — published 1998 — 6 editions
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Divining Rod
3.64 avg rating — 142 ratings — published 1998 — 11 editions
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Goodnight, Nobody
4.08 avg rating — 108 ratings — published 2003 — 6 editions
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The Holiday Season
3.49 avg rating — 93 ratings — published 2007 — 5 editions
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3.84 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 2004 — 7 editions
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