Burnside, John

JOHN BURNSIDE's five works of fiction and eleven collections of poetry have been published in the U.K. "The Asylum Dance" won the Whitbread Poetry Award, and "The Light Trap" was short-listed for the T. S. Eliot Prize. His acclaimed memoir, "A Lie About My Father," was published in the United States in May 2007; "The Devil's Footprints" is his first novel to be published in this country.