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Alexander Blevens is an award-winning historical fiction author. His latest novel, Arkansas Black, bridges Western and Southern genres and won the Spur Award from the Western Writers of America. He writes emotionally resonant stories of family bonds, hardship, moral choice, and character, all grounded in accurate historical settings.
An Air Force veteran, retired orthopaedic surgeon, and public speaker, he found his voice as a writer later in life. He has appeared on public radio, national author panels, at regional book festivals and book clubs, and at local library events.
Raised in California, he now makes his home on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, where he lives and writes with his wife, a Southern belle from New Orleans.

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IPPY Award Gold Medal

Arkansas Black has landed another accolade, this time a gold medal from the Independent Publishers Magazine for best Southern regional novel. The IPPY Awards recognize independent and university presses for outstanding literature.

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" My debut novel Bycatch features many Biloxi landmarks present before Hurricane Katrina, like the Biloxi Coast Guard Air Station on Point Cadet. Read the brief history of this unique outpost in my August Newsletter "
" I recently received a very positive "GET IT" accolade from Kirkus Reviews for Arkansas Black. Here is the review: Secrets, lies, and failing crops are tearing a family, and their farm, apart in Blevens’ historical novel. It’s 1927 in Benton..." Read more of this blog post »
"It's apple season in the United States, a time we often forget about because our stores are full of imported apples year-round. But you will only find Arkansas Black apples at farmer's markets and roadside fruit stands this time of the year in the..." Read more of this blog post »
"Arkansas Black has landed another accolade, this time a gold medal from the Independent Publishers Magazine for best Southern regional novel. The IPPY Awards recognize independent and university presses for outstanding literature. "
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“My roommate is a 240-pound homicidal hermit. For dinner he’s fixing me a dead fox he scraped off the highway near Ponchatoula, and after that we’re taking a leaky tin boat out on a windy lake to spy on some semi-retarded fishermen. Don’t you wish you were here?”
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Alexander Blevens Hey Friends,
I started a new Goodreads Book List called "Books Set in Biloxi." The Biloxi area is so unique, with rich cultural and geographic history, that many authors (including me) have chosen it as a setting. Please visit this list and add your favorite Biloxi titles, fiction and non-fiction.

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