David Guterson

Palpably writes so you can smell, hear, and see the fictional world created – with dead-on descriptions of the physical characteristics of the novel's setting. ED KING is a riveting new novel that brings a contemporary urgency to one of the greatest stories of all time.

• PEN/Faulkner Award-winner for Snow Falling on Cedars, novelist, poet, essayist, and short story writer.
• ED KING – forthcoming in October of 2011 – is a story of a brief affair which sets in motion a tragedy of epic proportions, upending Sophocles' immortal tale of fate, free will, and forbidden desire

"Finely wrought, flawlessly written."

-- The New York Times Book Review (on Snow Falling on Cedars)

“Profound and ambitious. . . . Guterson depicts . . . moral and spiritual struggle with a clear-eyed intensity and intelligence that gives 'East of the Mountains' its essential authority.”

-- Chicago Tribune

”Our Lady of the Forest shows Guterson to be a serious and searching craftsman, very much in the American grain.”

-- Pico Iyer, Time

“With The Other, Guterson has made a highly significant contribution to American literature, touching on a number of persistent themes, including Puritan beginnings, westward expansion and journeys of exploration, ecological collapse, transcendentalism, apocalypticism, social decline, mass-media vacuity and the interplay of wealth with bohemia.”

--The Guardian, London