A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain: Stories

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Robert Olen Butler served in Vietnam in 1971 as a Vietnamese linguist. He is the author of nine novels and two collections of stories. The short stories in this collection have appeared in such places as The Hudson Review, The Sewanee Review, The Virginia Quarterly Review, and have been anthologized in The Best American Short Stories and New Stories from the South. A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain was awarded the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and was nominated for the PEN/Faulkner Award. He is also the winner of a Guggenheim Fellowship for Fiction and the Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is the Francis Eppes Professor of English holding the Michael Shaara Chair in Creative Writing at Florida State University.