Robert Bausch is the author of seven novels and one collection of short stories. They include "Almighty Me "(optioned for film and eventually adapted as "Bruce Almighty"), "A Hole in the Earth "(a "New York Times" Notable and "Washington Post" Favourite Book of the Year) and "Out of Season "(also a "Washington Post" Favourite). He was born in Georgia and is Professor of English at Northern Virginia Community College. In 2005, he won the Fellowship of Southern Writers' Hillsdale Award for Fiction for his body of work. In 2009, he was awarded the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature, also for su...