Lawrence Naumoff

Over dinner a few weeks ago, the novelist Lawrence Naumoff told a troubling story.

The article opens with an anecdote from the novelist Lawrence Naumoff, whose creative writing students in one class at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill had not read nor even heard of Jack Kerouac.
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"Naumoff began describing the legend of the literary wild man. One student offered that he had a teacher who was just as crazy.Naumoff asked the professor's name.The student said he didn't know.Naumoff then asked this oblivious scholar, ‘Do you know my name?'

Lawrence Naumoff -- A Southern Tragedy, in Crimson and Yellow

Lawrence Naumoff is a novelist and instructor in the Creative Writing Program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.He is the winner of a Whiting Award, a Thomas Wolfe Award, and many other literary prizes.His novel Taller Women: A Cautionary Tale, was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year in 1992.His most recent novel, A Southern Tragedy, In Crimson And Yellow depicts events surrounding the 1991 Imperial Foods chicken processing plant fire in Hamlet, North Carolina.

Over dinner a few weeks ago, the novelist Lawrence Naumoff told a troubling story. - Sunday, November 27, 2005