{"id":486,"date":"2022-09-28T16:20:58","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T21:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/?p=486"},"modified":"2023-12-18T11:13:39","modified_gmt":"2023-12-18T17:13:39","slug":"daniel-wallace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/2017\/daniel-wallace\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniel Wallace"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Author of <em>Extraorinary Adventures<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/images\/welty\/authors17\/dwallace_lg.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>Daniel Wallace<\/strong>&nbsp;returns as the keynote author, reading from his sixth novel,&nbsp;<em>Extraordinary Adventures<\/em>. Wallace is known for his bestselling novel&nbsp;<em>Big Fish<\/em>, which was adapted as a hit movie and a Broadway musical.&nbsp;In it Wallace firmly established himself as the master of the tall tale.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/images\/welty\/authors17\/covers\/extraordinary_sm.jpg\" alt=\"extraordinary sm\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>In&nbsp;<em>Extraordinary Adventures<\/em>, unassuming junior executive shipping clerk Edsel Bronfman of Birmingham, Ala., wins a weekend getaway to Destin Florida, but must bring along a wife or girlfriend to claim his prize. Having neither, he sets out to find someone, which leads to extraordinary adventures that the&nbsp;<em>New York Times<\/em>&nbsp;declares are \u201cas refreshing and original as his earlier books,\u201d and&nbsp;<em>Garden and Gun<\/em>&nbsp;calls &#8220;a rollicking crash course in loving\u2014and in living a little.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other novels by Daniel Wallace include&nbsp;<em>Ray in Reverse, The Watermelon King, Mr. Sebastian and the Negro Magician,&nbsp;<\/em>and<em>&nbsp;The Kings and Queens of Roam.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/danielwallace.org\">Daniel Wallace&#8217;s site<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/06\/02\/books\/review\/extraordinary-adventures-daniel-wallace.html?_r=0\">New York Times review<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/gardenandgun.com\/articles\/smoldering-love\/\">Garden and Gun (scroll down for review)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2017 Keynote<br \/>\nAuthor of Extraordinary Adventures<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":457,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-8"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":830,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486\/revisions\/830"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}