Jeff Zentner

Jeff Zentner is the author of New York Times Notable Books The Serpent King and In the Wild Light , as well as Goodbye Days and Rayne & Delilah's Midnite Matinee . Among other honors, he has won the ALA's William C. Morris Award, the Amelia Elizabeth Walden Award twice, the Muriel Becker Award, and the International Literacy Association Award, been long-listed twice for the Carnegie Medal, and been a two-time Southern Book Prize finalist. Before becoming a writer, he was a musician who...See more

Jeff Zentner is the author of New York Times Notable Books The Serpent King and In the Wild Light , as well as Goodbye Days and Rayne & Delilah's Midnite Matinee . Among other honors, he has won the ALA's William C. Morris Award, the Amelia Elizabeth Walden Award twice, the Muriel Becker Award, and the International Literacy Association Award, been long-listed twice for the Carnegie Medal, and been a two-time Southern Book Prize finalist. Before becoming a writer, he was a musician who recorded with Iggy Pop, Nick Cave, and Debbie Harry. He lives in Nashville. See less