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Tony Earley


Born
in San Antonio, Texas, The United States
January 01, 1961


Tony Earley (born 1961) is an American novelist and short story writer. He was born in San Antonio, Texas, but grew up in North Carolina. His stories are often set in North Carolina.

Earley studied English at Warren Wilson College and after graduation in 1983, he spent four years as a reporter in North Carolina, first as a general assignment reporter for The Thermal Belt News Journal in Columbus, and then as sports editor and feature writer at The Daily Courier in Forest City. Later he attended the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, where he received an MFA in creative writing. He quickly found success writing short stories, first with smaller literary magazines, then with Harper's, which published two of his stories: "Charlotte" in 1992 a ...more

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Jim the Boy
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The Blue Star (Jim Glass, #2)
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Mr. Tall
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Here We Are in Paradise: St...
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“Writers do not write about a place because they belong there, but because they want to.”
― Tony Earley
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“I think about reading the poem to her, but some things are just too true to ever say out loud.”
― Tony Earley, Here We Are in Paradise: Stories
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“Where you going?� Whitey asked. “Nowhere,� said Jim. “Hang on a minute, then,� said Whitey. “I ain’t going nowhere, either.”
― Tony Earley, Jim the Boy
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