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Fredrick Barton's is the award winning author of the novels The El Cholo Feeling Passes, Courting Pandemonium, Black and White on the Rocks (originally published as With Extreme Prejudice) and A House Divided, which won the William Faulkner Prize. His other books include the essay collection Rowing to Sweden: Essays on Faith, Love, Politics and Movies. His short stories have appeared in numerous magazines and in the anthologies Something in Common, Above Ground and Louisiana in Words.

Mr. Barton's fifth novel, In the Wake of the Flagship, has elicited the endorsement of author Richard Ford who said about it, "Barton has a lot of important human business on his mind in this exceptional novel: race, history, the South, hurricanes, laughter, l Fredrick Barton's is the award winning author of the novels The El Cholo Feeling Passes, Courting Pandemonium, Black and White on the Rocks (originally published as With Extreme Prejudice) and A House Divided, which won the William Faulkner Prize. His other books include the essay collection Rowing to Sweden: Essays on Faith, Love, Politics and Movies. His short stories have appeared in numerous magazines and in the anthologies Something in Common, Above Ground and Louisiana in Words.

Mr. Barton's fifth novel, In the Wake of the Flagship, has elicited the endorsement of author Richard Ford who said about it, "Barton has a lot of important human business on his mind in this exceptional novel: race, history, the South, hurricanes, laughter, love and much more. In the Wake of the Flagship is wonderfully inventive and addictive to read." Eminent historian Gary B. Nash has hailed In the Wake of the Flagship as "absorbing, head-turning, absolutely brilliant."

Mr. Barton holds a B.A. from Valparaiso University and did graduate work under a Danforth Fellowship, taking degrees from UCLA and the Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa. In 2009 Valparaiso awarded him with an honorary doctorate in humane letters in recognition of his achievements as a writer and educator. A faculty member at the University of New Orleans for over three decades, he was the founding director of UNO's Creative Writing Workshop (CWW), its MFA program in imaginative writing, and over two different time periods served in that position for seven years. A former Dean of the College of Liberal Arts, Mr. Barton served as UNO Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic and Student Affairs from 2003-2008 and in that position led the university through its exigency recovery after Hurricane Katrina. Upon returning to his department, Mr. Barton was honored with the distinguished title, University Research Professor. Today he is Writer-in-Residence in the English Department where he teaches graduate fiction writing classes in the CWW. ...more

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	With Extreme Prejudice: A Novel 3.71 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 1993 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The El Cholo Feeling Passes 3.88 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 1985 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In the Wake of the Flagship it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A House Divided 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2004 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Monday Nights: Stories from the Creative Writing Workshop at the University of New Orleans by Fredrick Barton (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Joanna Leake (Editor) 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rowing to Sweden: Essays on Faith, Love, Politics, and Movies it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2010 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Courting Pandemonium really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1986 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	With Extreme Prejudice liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	One Hundred Revival Sermons and Outlines 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Preacher 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars