Getting acquanted
By way of introduction, I left my Mississippi home in 1973 to live in New York City, went back home in '77 and stayed there for 11 years, and then escaped to Olympia, Washington where I've lived since '88. I have a love-hate relationship with the Deep South, and all of my novels have been either set in Mississippi or have protagonists who, like me, escaped to more politically and socially inviting climates.
I write theater and art reviews for local newspapers in Tacoma and Olympia, but my novels are all in the "Southern Gothic" tradition of William Faulkner, Eudora Welty and the late (died way too young) Larry Brown.
My latest novel, VISUAL LIBERTIES, due out in February 2015, is the third and final book in a trilogy set in the fictional town of Freedom, Mississippi in the bayou country near the Gulf Coast.Return to FreedomThe Backside of Nowhere
I write theater and art reviews for local newspapers in Tacoma and Olympia, but my novels are all in the "Southern Gothic" tradition of William Faulkner, Eudora Welty and the late (died way too young) Larry Brown.
My latest novel, VISUAL LIBERTIES, due out in February 2015, is the third and final book in a trilogy set in the fictional town of Freedom, Mississippi in the bayou country near the Gulf Coast.Return to FreedomThe Backside of Nowhere
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Alec Clayton Transplanted Southerner
Random notes from a transplanted Southerner who lives and works in the Pacific Northwest but has never let go of his Mississippi roots (and accent).
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