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Baird Harper

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Connection to Illinois: Harper grew up in Northfield and currently lives in Oak Park. He teaches at Loyola University and the University of Chicago.

Biography: Baird Harper’s fiction has appeared in Glimmer Train, Tin House, StoryQuarterly, and The Chicago Tribune, among other publications, and has been anthologized in New Stories from the Midwest, 2015; 40 Years of CutBank, Stories; and twice in Best New American Voices. The recipient of the 2014 Raymond Carver Award for Short Fiction, the Chicago Tribune's Nelson Algren Award, and the James Jones Short Story Award, Harper lives in Oak Park with his wife and two kids, and he teaches creative writing at Loyola University and the University of Chicago. Red Light Run is his first novel.


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Primary Literary Genre(s): Fiction

Primary Audience(s): Adult readers

Web: https://www.bairdharper.com/
WorldCat: http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=Baird++Harper


Selected Titles

Red Light Run: Linked Stories
ISBN: 1501147358 OCLC:

Scribner 2017

When two cars collide at an intersection in a leafy Chicago suburb, Hartley Nolan is not the person police expect to find behind the wheel. After all, he barely drinks; everyone knows it's his wife who's the alcoholic. But the bigger question on people's minds is what brought Sonia Senn, dead at the scene, back to her hometown in such a hurry that night? In eleven tightly linked stories, Red Light Run pulls us into the inner lives of Hartley, Sonia, and a host of other characters to untangle the mounting forces that carry them to their fates. --

 

 

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