Ed Falco Biography

Ed Falco is the author of five novels and four short story collections. He is the director of Virginia Tech's MFA program and he edits The New River an online journal of digital writing. His latest novel The Family Corleone based on pages extracted from Mario Puzo's Godfather screenplays is forthcoming from Grand Central Publishing in May 2012. Foreign rights have sold around the world including Britain China Czech Republic France Germany Hungary Italy Lithuania Poland Portugal Russia Slovakia Sweden and Vietnam. He is available to talk about the writing of The Family Corleone and its relationship to the Godfather movies and novels.
Falco’s most recent books include the story collections Burning Man (SMU 2011) and the novel Saint John of the Five Boroughs (Unbridled 2009). Other books include Sabbath Night in the Church of the Piranha: New and Selected Stories (Unbridled 2006) Wolf Point a novel(Unbridled 2006) and In the Park of Culture a collection of short fictions from The University of Notre Dame Press. His earlier works include the novel Winter in Florida the hypertext novel A Dream with Demons the hypertext poetry collection Sea Island and a chapbook of prose poem Concert in the Park of Culture as well as two collections of short stories: Acid and Plato at Scratch Daniel's & Other Stories. Acid won the Richard Sullivan Prize from the University of Notre Dame and was a finalist for The Patterson Prize. He has won a number of other prizes and awards for his writing including an NEA Fellowship in fiction a Virginia Commission for the Arts Fellowship in playwriting the Emily Clark Balch Prize for Short Fiction from The Virginia Quarterly Review The Robert Penn Warren Prize in Poetry from The Southern Review The Mishima Prize for Innovative Fiction from The Saint Andrews Review a Dakin Fellowship from the Sewanee Writers' Conference two Individual Artist's Fellowships from the Virginia Commission for the Arts and The Governor's Award for the Screenplay from The Virginia Festival of American Film.

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