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A World Made of Fire
"Mark Childress is is an artist, with an ear comparable to Eudora Welty's, which to me is the highest praise one can give. I haven't read a Southern novel since 'Losing Battles' that has given me such pleasure."
-- Harper Lee

V for Victor
"If you've forgotten the thrills and chills of child's play, the incendiary imagination of adolescence, Mark Childress's second novel -- a speeding bullet of a book -- will ignite your memory. In this adventure story the hero, Victor, is sublimely lost, a celebrated ragamuffin like Huck Finn or one of Peter Pan's lost tribe."
-- Marianne Gingher, New York Times Book Review

Tender
"Mark Childress's novel, Tender, is a little more than just a fine novel; it is a big, all-American, Technicolor dreamboat of a book, as vital and as intense as anything I've read in the last ten years. If you care about rock and roll, Tender is going to knock your socks off. This is a great novel, and as Childress documents the meteoric rise of his talented child-monster-prodigy, Leroy Kirby, he never misses a beat."
-- Stephen King

Crazy in Alabama
"(A novelist's) very dearest wish is to write something that nobody has ever written before. Mark Childress has done this in Crazy in Alabama. Childress plays out his two hands here...like a master playing out a fancy game of double solitaire. Craziness rules."
-- Carolyn See, Washington Post Book World

Gone for Good
"If you like rock and roll, rhythm and blues, jazz, bluegrass, circuses, state fairs, or volcanoes, then you'll love Gone for Good. And beneath the fine music, fabulous rides, and bright lights of this book run the warm currents of home and love. The magic of this book is that Mark Childress somehow does it all together.... Somehow Mark Childress has managed to both celebrate and criticize this, the craziest of all Ages, the Age of Celebrity."
-- Clyde Edgerton

One Mississippi
Early-draft catalog copy about my new novel.

Books for Kids
These are my little-known contributions to the world of children's literature. I had a blast writing these books and meeting kids who let me read them the story.

Crazy in Alabama
Lucille's adventures in Hollywood (and mine!)

Billy and Jimmy
The story of two brothers, Billy and Jimmy, and what happens when one of them grows up to be President of the United States.