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David Marion Wilkinson, a fifth-generation Arkansan, has lived in Texas since 1972. He graduated from the University of Texas in 1980 with a B.A. in English, although he doesn't understand why. The author has worked as a carpenter, mortgage loan officer, an investigator for a civil trial firm, in the oil fields of Texas, Louisiana, Saudi Arabia and the North Sea, and as a part-time ranch hand in Texas’ Big Bend, and occasional hunting guide in the Texas Hill Country. For nearly four years he was also the writer-in-residence for Sul Ross State University. His second novel, The Empty Quarter, draws upon his experiences in the North Sea and Saudi Arabia. His first, Not Between Brothers, won the 1997 Violet Crown Award (Barnes & Noble/Writers League of Texas) for fiction, was a Spur Award "Best Novel of the West" finalist, and was selected "Editors Choice" by The Review of Texas Books. The 15th Anniversary Edition of Not Between Brothers will be released in April of 2010. His short story, "Opening Day," published by ReadWest Online Magazine, won the Western Writers of America 2000 Spur Award for Best Western Short Fiction. His third novel, Oblivion's Altar, the true life story of the Cherokee Chief Major Ridge, was released by NAL in November, 2002. Major Ridge championed the "civilization" movement within the Cherokee Nation and was the driving force behind the organization of a centralized, constituted government only to be blamed later for the Trail of Tears. Oblivion's Altar won a 2003 Spur Award and was selected as a finalist for the 2003 Oklahoma Book Awards. Wilkinson co-wrote a memoir with retired Texas Ranger Joaquin Jackson. At the twilight of Jackson's 27-year career with the Rangers, Texas Monthly magazine featured his image on their bestselling edition ever (February, 1994). Jackson went on to act in feature films The Good Old Boys, Dancer, Texas, Rough Riders, and Blue Sky. Now in its 10th printing, One Ranger: A Memoir has become the fastest-selling book in the history of the University of Texas Press.
The author spent nearly ten years with
Todd Allen and Bonnie
Orr adapting The Empty Quarter for the screen. The project is
currently optioned to
Presidio Pictures where it remains in development. The author lives in Austin, Texas.
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Click below for a Podcast interview with David Marion Wilkinson: http://texanareview.typepad.com/posts/2008/06/an-interview-wi.html Click below for an interview with David Marion Wilkinson: http://www.elizabethlyon.com/interviews.htm and
OBLIVION'S ALTAR on Nashville Public Radio http://www.wpln.org/fineprint/fineprint2003/fineprint051003.html
CLICK below FOR AN AMPERSAND INTERVIEW WITH DAVID, his editor and agents: http://www.inkdance.biz/ampersand_one.htm
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