Hoffman, Roy

Roy Hoffman is author of the novels "Almost Family", winner of the Lillian Smith Award for fiction, and "Chicken Dreaming Corn", a BookSense pick endorsed by Harper Lee. He is author of two essay collections, "Back Home: Journeys Through Mobile" and "Alabama Afternoons: Profiles and Conversations", and his articles and reviews have appeared in the "New York Times", "Fortune", "Southern Living", and the "Mobile Press-Register", where he was a long-time staff writer. A graduate of Tulane University who worked as a journalist and speechwriter in New York City before moving back south to Fairhope,...