Roy Hoffman

Roy Hoffman is the award-winning author of the novels Come Landfall , Chicken Dreaming Corn , and Almost Family , and nonfiction Alabama Afternoons and Back Home . He has written essays for the New York Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal and was a journalist and speechwriter in New York before returning south. He has reviewed numerous works for the New York Times Book Review and is on the faculty of Spalding University's Naslund-Mann Graduate School of Writing. A native of Mobile...See more

Roy Hoffman is the award-winning author of the novels Come Landfall , Chicken Dreaming Corn , and Almost Family , and nonfiction Alabama Afternoons and Back Home . He has written essays for the New York Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal and was a journalist and speechwriter in New York before returning south. He has reviewed numerous works for the New York Times Book Review and is on the faculty of Spalding University's Naslund-Mann Graduate School of Writing. A native of Mobile and Tulane University graduate, he resides in Fairhope, Alabama. See less