Robert Olen Butler is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain, and sixteen other novels including Hell, A Small Hotel, Perfume River, and the Christopher Marlowe Cobb series. He is also the author of six short story collections and a book on the creative process, From Where You Dream. He has twice won a National Magazine Award in Fiction and received the 2013 F. Scott Fitzgerald Award for Outstanding Achievement in American Literature. He teaches creative writing at Florida State University.
Engaging... A poignant meditation on the circle of life, the wonder we all feel as it slips away * Minneapolis Star Tribune * With two dozen remarkably imaginative and empathic fiction titles to his credit, Butler brings preternatural attunement to the spiraling of the mind and ardently honed artistry to this exceptionally nuanced, tender, funny, tragic, and utterly transfixing portrait of a man reflecting on more than a century's worth of horror and wonder * Booklist (starred review) * Breathtaking... An honest, poignant reckoning of what it means to gaze unblinkingly at our own failings and to find transcendence * Historical Novel Society * It's God, the supercilious wit who rules the center of Late City... While it has a consistently subtle profundity, Late City isn't exactly a Novel of Ideas - it's too entertaining and accessible for that, especially with jagged bolts of wry comedy dispensed by God * Atlanta Journal Constitution * A moving tale of love and misunderstanding * Publishers Weekly *