{"id":412,"date":"2022-09-28T15:05:08","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T20:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/?p=412"},"modified":"2022-09-28T15:17:43","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T20:17:43","slug":"silas-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/2018\/silas-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Silas House"},"content":{"rendered":"
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author of Southernmost<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Friday, October 19 11:15 a.m.<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Silas House returns to the symposium with his sixth novel Southernmost<\/em>, thestory of a <\/em>Tennessee preacher who, after a disastrous Cumberland river flood, embarks on a search for his ostracized, gay brother.House’s other novels include The Coal Tattoo, A Parchment of Leaves, Clay\u2019s Quilt, <\/em>Eli the Good,<\/em> and Same Sun Here <\/em>(with Neela Vaswani).He also co-wrote Something\u2019s Rising,<\/em> a collection of creative nonfiction with Jason Howard, and has writtenthree plays:  In These Fields<\/em> (co-written with Sam Gleaves), This Is My Heart for You, <\/em>and The Hurting Part.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Did You Know?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. House teaches in the MFA program at Spalding University and is NEH Chair in Appalachian Studies at Berea College.<\/li>
  2. He is also a music journalist, writing for No Depression<\/em> and NPR’s All Things Considered<\/em>.<\/li>
  3. He is the recipient of the Appalachian Book of the Year award, the EB White Award, and the Lee Smith Award, among others.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n