John Brandon

John Brandon has published five previous books with McSweeney's--the novels Arkansas , Citrus County , A Million Heavens , and Ivory Shoals , and the story collection Further Joy . Arkansas was adapted into a movie of the same name starring Liam Hemsworth, Vince Vaughn, and John Malkovich. Citrus County was a finalist for the New York Public Library Young Lions Award and was reviewed on the cover of the New York Times Book Review . Brandon has been awarded the Grisham Fellowship at Ole Miss and...See more

John Brandon has published five previous books with McSweeney's--the novels Arkansas , Citrus County , A Million Heavens , and Ivory Shoals , and the story collection Further Joy . Arkansas was adapted into a movie of the same name starring Liam Hemsworth, Vince Vaughn, and John Malkovich. Citrus County was a finalist for the New York Public Library Young Lions Award and was reviewed on the cover of the New York Times Book Review . Brandon has been awarded the Grisham Fellowship at Ole Miss and the Tickner Fellowship at Gilman School in Baltimore, and he has received a Sustainable Arts Foundation Fellowship. His short fiction has appeared in ESPN the Magazine , Oxford American , McSweeney's Quarterly Concern , Mississippi Review , Subtropics , Chattahoochee Review , Hotel Amerika , and other publications, and he has written about college football for GQ.com and Grantland . He was born in Florida and now resides in Minnesota, where he teaches at Hamline University in St. Paul. See less