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Bill Roorbach

Biography

Bill Roorbach

Bill Roorbach is the author of six books of fiction, including THE GIRL OF THE LAKE, the Kirkus Prize finalist THE REMEDY FOR LOVE, the bestselling LIFE AMONG GIANTS, and the Flannery O’Connor Award–winning collection BIG BEND. His memoir in nature, TEMPLE STREAM, won the Maine Literary Award in nonfiction. Roorbach has received fellowships from the Civitella Ranieri Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. He held the William H. P. Jenks Chair in Contemporary American Letters at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. His craft book, WRITING LIFE STORIES, has been in print for 25 years. His writing has appeared in Harper’s, the New York Times Magazine, the Atlantic, Ploughshares, Granta, Ecotone, New York magazine and other publications. He lives in Maine with his family.

Bill Roorbach

Books by Bill Roorbach

by Bill Roorbach - Fiction, Romance, Romantic Suspense, Suspense, Thriller

Intensely moving, frequently funny, THE REMEDY FOR LOVE is a harrowing story about the truths we reveal when there is no time or space for artifice.