William Jennings Bryan Oleander's Guide to Kansas

by Thomas Fox Averill

Book by Averill, Thomas Fox

145 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 1996

About the author

An O. Henry Award story writer, Thomas Fox Averill is Writer-in-Residence at Washburn University of Topeka, KS. His novel, rode, published by the University of New Mexico Press, was named Outstanding Western Novel of 2011 as part of the Western Heritage Awards. His recent work, "Garden Plots," consists of poems, meditations, and short-short stories about gardens, gardeners, garden design, plants, and the human relationship to nature. They can be found on his website. His most recent novel is A Carol Dickens Christmas, published by the University of New Mexico Press in 2014.

Previous novels are Secrets of the Tsil Café, and The Slow Air of Ewan MacPherson. His story collections are Ordinary Genius (University of Nebraska Press) and Seeing Mona Naked (Watermark Books).

Reviews

[Tom Shrimplin · Rating 5 out of 5]

It's a joy to read the commentaries I have heard on KPR in Kansas!!! He's so "down home" and with little verbage states his opinion in a way that can't offend anyone!