Clyde Edgerton to read from The Bible Salesman

Con men on the loose in Edgerton's latest novel
Thursday, October 16
Reception: 5 p.m.
Program: 5:45 p.m.
Wilson Library
Free and open to the public
Information: Liza Terll, 919-962-4207
Also reading in Wilson Library this month: Ted Rosengarten (Oct. 22) and Daniel Wallace (Oct. 30)

Henry, a 20-year-old Bible salesman in the post-WWII South, needs a car. Clearwater, a car thief, needs an assistant. The crossing fates and adventures of the two North Carolina con men are the subjects of Clyde Edgerton's latest novel, The Bible Salesman.

Edgerton will read from the novel at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Wilson Library on Oct. 16. A 5-p.m. reception in the Library lobby will precede the 5:45-p.m. program in the Pleasants Family Assembly Room. Books will be available for purchase courtesy of co-sponsor Bull's Head Bookshop.

Edgerton, a native of Durham, N.C., is the author of eight other novels: Raney, Walking Across Egypt, The Floatplane Notebooks, Killer Diller, In Memory of Junior, Redeye, Where Trouble Sleeps and Lunch at the Picadilly. His first non-fiction book, Solo: My Adventures in the Air, is a memoir of his years in the Air Force.

The author has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Lyndhurst Fellowship, the North Carolina Award for Literature, a Distinguished Alumni Award from the UNC Education Department and five notable book awards from The New York Times.

He teaches creative writing at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. Edgerton, who also holds master's and doctoral degrees, studied English as an undergraduate at UNC. The Clyde Edgerton Papers are part of the Southern Historical Collection in UNC's Wilson Special Collections Library.

Related Links

• ClydeEdgerton.com (author Web site)
• Inventory of the Clyde Edgerton Papers (Wilson Special Collections Library)

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