ROBERT OLEN BUTLER has published 16 novels, including The Alleys of Eden, The Star of Istanbul, The Empire of Night, and Perfume River, as well as six volumes of short fiction, including A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain, which won the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. He has also published From Where You Dream, a volume of his lectures on the creative process. In 2013, he became the 17th recipient of the F. Scott Fitzgerald Award for Outstanding Achievement in American Literature. He also won the Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award. He has twice won a National Magazine Award in fiction and has received two Pushcart Prizes. He has also received both a Guggenheim fellowship in fiction and a National Endowment for the Arts grant. His works have been translated into 21 languages. His stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Esquire, Harper’s, The Atlantic Monthly, GQ, Zoetrope, The Paris Review, Granta, and other publications. He is a Krafft Distinguished Professor holding the Michael Shaara Chair in Creative Writing at Florida State University.
