Steve Yarbrough’s honors include the Mississippi Authors Award, the California Book Award, and a third from the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters. The author of two previous novels and three collections of stories, he is a native of the Delta town of Indianola and now lives in Fresno, California.
The highest kind of art, full of subtlety and sensitivity. -Dallas Morning News Yarbrough writes with quiet compassion . . . [about] what it means to be American, and all the unexpected-and often unwarranted-sacrifices that identity might comprise. -The New York Times Book Review In this powerful, understated novel, [Yarbrough] finds a way to describe how fleeting moments between people slowly accrue and gather the heaviness of fate. -The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Vivid and dramatic. . . . Prisoners of War is smart and entertaining. -San Francisco Chronicle Yarbrough has created a timely war novel that is refreshingly unpredictable yet as comfortable as an old boot. -The Oregonian