Mr. Roy Hoffman

Roy Hoffman is author of the novels "Almost Family," winner of the Lillian Smith Award for fiction, and "Chicken Dreaming Corn," a BookSense pick endorsed by Harper Lee. He is author of two essay collections, "Back Home: Journeys Through Mobile" and "Alabama Afternoons: Profiles and Conversations," and his articles and reviews have appeared in the "New York Times," "Fortune," "Southern Living," and the "Mobile Press-Register," where he was a long-time staff writer. A graduate of Tulane...See more

Roy Hoffman is author of the novels "Almost Family," winner of the Lillian Smith Award for fiction, and "Chicken Dreaming Corn," a BookSense pick endorsed by Harper Lee. He is author of two essay collections, "Back Home: Journeys Through Mobile" and "Alabama Afternoons: Profiles and Conversations," and his articles and reviews have appeared in the "New York Times," "Fortune," "Southern Living," and the "Mobile Press-Register," where he was a long-time staff writer. A graduate of Tulane University who worked as a journalist and speechwriter in New York City before moving back south to Fairhope, Ala., he received the Clarence Cason Award in nonfiction from the University of Alabama and is on the faculty of the Spalding Brief Residency MFA in Writing Program. On the web: www.Facebook.com/RoyHoffmanWriter See less