Woodrell, Daniel

Daniel Woodrell lives in the Missouri Ozarks near the Arkansas state line. His five most recent novels were selected as New York Times Notable Books of the Year, and "Tomato Red" won the PEN West Award for the Novel. Two novels have been adapted as major motion pictures: "Woe to Live On", filmed in 1999 by Ang Lee as "Ride with the Devil", starring Tobey Maguire and Skeet Ulrich, and "Winter s Bone", a 2010 film accepted to the US dramatic competition category at the Sundance Film Festival.