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Jun 15, 2016 · Award Winning Author Darryl Wimberley. DARRYL WIMBERLEY has been recognized for both novels noir and literary work. A Tinker’s Damn won the ForeWord Award for “Best Literary Novel” in 2001. The King of Colored Town was the first novel to garner the Willie Morris Award for Fiction in 2007. Darryl writes, works, and lives with his family in ...
Darryl Wimberley is a winner of the Willie Morris Prize for Southern Fiction. His books include A Rock and a Hard Place and Dead Man's Bay.A native of northern Florida, he now lives in Austin, Texas.
Wimberley lives in Austin, Texas. Series: Darryl Wimberley is a native Floridian. After high school, he entered the Air Force Academy in Colorado, graduating with a B.S. in International Affairs. While still on active duty, he attended St. Mary's University in San Antonio, Texas, and received an M.A. in English literature.
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Darryl Wimberley’s narrative is no mere tall tale but a full-fledged novel, with details so vivid, you can smell the wood shavings…. Somewhere in an ancient stand of timber comes a request from an aging lumberjack. “I need me a will,” Paul Bunyan informs his camp’s scribe and bean-counter.
Darryl Wimberley 3.60 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2001 — 4 editions Want to Read saving…
Darryl Wimberley has been recognized for both novels noir and literary work. A Tinker’s Damn won a Foreword Reviews Award for Best Literary Novel in 2001. The King of Colored Town was the first novel to garner The Willie Morris Award for Fiction in 2007. More recently, Paul Bunyan won Book of the Year for General Fiction in the 2015 IndieFab ...
Jul 1, 1999 · A Rock and a Hard Place. Hardcover – July 1, 1999. Detective Barrett Raines, the sole Black officer on a small northwest-Florida police force, investigates the murder of popular bar owner Ramona, his beloved mentor, and must face the possibility that his ne'er-do-well brother may be involved.
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