Zimmer, Max

Winner of the Pushcart Prize for his story "Utah Died for Your Sins," hailed as a "raw new voice in American fiction" by Rolling Stone magazine, Max Zimmer was born in Switzerland, brought across the Atlantic at the age of four, and raised in Utah in the take-no-prisoners crucible of the Mormon faith. He earned a B.A. and an M.A. from the University of Utah and was teaching fiction, working on a doctorate in writing, when he was invited east for a summer at Yaddo, the writer's retreat in Saratoga, New York. He never intended to stay in the East. He was here long enough to finish a panoramic no...