The Grace That Keeps This World was Tom Bailey’s first novel. He is also the author of Crow Man, a collection of short stories, and A Short Story Writer’s Companion, Cotton Song, a novel, and the editor of On Writing Short Stories. He lives with his wife and three children in Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania, where he teaches in the creative writing program at Susquehanna University.


Awards Received: Pushcart Prize, for story "Snow Dreams"; Newhouse Award, John Gardner Foundation; fellowship in fiction, National Endowment for the Arts.


Tom Bailey from Susquehanna University's Writers Institute
NPR Interview with Tom Bailey

FURTHER READINGS ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

PERIODICALS

• Booklist, August, 2005, Joanne Wilkinson, review of The Grace That Keeps This World, p. 1989; October 15, 2006, review of Cotton Song, p. 27.
• Kirkus Reviews, July 15, 2005, review of The Grace That Keeps This World, p. 749; August 15, 2006, review of Cotton Song, p. 803.
• Library Journal, June 15, 2005, Barbara Hoffert, review of The Grace That Keeps This World, p. 48; September 1, 2005, Christine DeZelar-Tiedman, review of The Grace That Keeps This World, p. 127.
• Publishers Weekly, August 1, 2005, review of The Grace That Keeps This World, p. 42; August 8, 2005, Natalie Danford, review of The Grace That Keeps This World, p. 105; August 14, 2006, review of Cotton Song, p. 178.
• Writer, June, 2001, Robert Allen Papinchak, review of A Short Story Writer's Companion, p. 46.