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James Wilcox



James Wilcox (b. 1949 in Hammond, Louisiana) is an American novelist and a professor at LSU in Baton Rouge.

Wilcox is the author of eight comic novels set in, or featuring characters from, the fictional town of Tula Springs, Louisiana. Wilcox's first book Modern Baptists (1983) remains his best known work. His other novels are North Gladiola (1985), Miss Undine's Living Room (1987), Sort of Rich (1989), Polite Sex (1991), Guest of a Sinner (1993), Plain and Normal (1998), Heavenly Days (2003), and Hunk City (2007). Wilcox is also the author of three short stories that were published in The New Yorker between 1981 and 1986, three of only four short stories that the author has published. He has written book reviews for The New York Times and T
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Average rating: 3.48 · 1,304 ratings · 151 reviews · 37 distinct worksSimilar authors
Modern Baptists

3.59 avg rating — 620 ratings — published 1983 — 20 editions
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Polite Sex

3.11 avg rating — 114 ratings — published 1991 — 7 editions
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Sort of Rich

3.61 avg rating — 92 ratings — published 1990 — 9 editions
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Miss Undine's Living Room: ...

3.85 avg rating — 86 ratings — published 1987 — 13 editions
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North Gladiola

3.86 avg rating — 73 ratings — published 1985 — 13 editions
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Guest of a Sinner: A Novel

3.47 avg rating — 59 ratings — published 1993 — 10 editions
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Plain and Normal

3.08 avg rating — 62 ratings — published 1998 — 6 editions
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Rotations: Advanced Tactica...

3.90 avg rating — 49 ratings2 editions
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Heavenly Days

2.84 avg rating — 64 ratings — published 2003 — 5 editions
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Hunk City

2.53 avg rating — 59 ratings — published 2007 — 5 editions
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“The spike heels left a trail of silent reproach in the broadloom.

Petite and lovely as the girl next door, Dusty eschewed manners and bras in a way that complimented her boss's more uptight, corseted approach to life.”
James Wilcox, Plain and Normal

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