Burke is the author of thirty-four novels, including twenty in the Dave Robicheaux series, and two collections of short stories. His work has twice been awarded an Edgar for Best Crime Novel of the Year; in 2009 the Mystery Writers of America named him a Grand Master. He has also been a recipient of Bread Loaf and Guggenheim fellowships and an NEA grant. Three of his novels (Heaven’s Prisoners, Two for Texas, and In the Electric Mist with Confederate Dead) have been made into motion pictures. His short stories have been published in The Atlantic Monthly, New Stories from the South, Best American Short Stories, Antioch Review, Southern Review, and The Kenyon Review. His novel The Lost Get-Back Boogie was rejected 111 times over a period of nine years and, upon its publication by Louisiana State University Press in 1986, was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.
He and Pearl live in Missoula, Montana.
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Jolie Blon’s Bounce
Purple Cane Road
Sunset Limited
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Burning Angel
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Burke, James Lee.
Wayfaring stranger : a novel / James Lee Burke.
pages cm
I. Title.
PS3552.U723W39 2014
813'.54—dc23 2014000147
ISBN 978-1-4767-1079-2
ISBN 978-1-4767-1081-5 (ebook)
James Lee Burke, Wayfaring Stranger
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