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William T. Vollmann

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"I got shot at in many places, including Afghanistan, but have never had a bullet enter my flesh, although I've gotten some nicks from shrapnel." - William T. Vollmann

Vollmann is an Author, Journalist, and many other things. He's written about the April 19th Oklahoma City Bombing, Bosnia, voodoo, prostitution, Afghanistan.

Volumes 1,2, and 6 of his 7-part Seven Dreams saga have been published. He graduated from Cornell as Magna Cum Laude. (Did I spell that right?) He's written for Spin magazine and a multitude of others.

He's written (the dates may or may not be 100%):
You Bright And Risen Angels -novel(1987)
The Rainbow Stories -shorts(1989)
The Ice-Shirt -novel(1990)
Whores For Gloria -novel(1991)
13 Stories and 13 Epitaphs -shorts(1991)
An Afghanistan Picture Show, Or How I Saved The World -autobiographical(1992)
Fathers and Crows -novel(1992)
Butterfly Stories -(1993)
The Rifles -novel(1994)
Open All Night(1995) -Captions of photos(photographs by Ken Miller)
The Atlas -autobiographic (won 1997 PEN Center West Award for best novel by an author living west of the Mississippi.)
The Royal Family(2000) -novel

Works in progress:
Argall - Seven Dreams, Vol 3 - rumored to be about John Smith and Pocahontas
Poison-Shirt - Seven Dreams, Volume 4
Dying Grass - Seven Dreams, Volume 5
Cloud Shirt - Seven Dreams, Volume 7

The Shame Of Your Youth
The Multitude of Crimes
Wordcraft
Rising Up and Rising Down

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Rising Up and Rising Down You Bright And Risen Angels The Rainbow Stories The Red Sea and Time Fable
magna cum laude Jack Kerouac Why couldn't it have been an action picture that had just started? Jim Thompson
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