About this item
The Great Gatsby brilliantly recast in the contemporary South.
About the Author
Stephanie Powell Watts' debut novel No One Is Coming to Save Us was published by Ecco in 2017.
Watts won the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence for her debut story collection, We Are Taking Only What We Need (2012) , also named one of 2013's Best Summer Reads by O: The Oprah Magazine. Her short fiction has been included in two volumes of the Best New Stories from the South anthology and honored with a Pushcart Prize.
Born in the foothills of North Carolina, with a PhD from the University of Missouri and a BA from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, she now lives with her husband and son in Pennsylvania where she is an associate professor at Lehigh University.
Her author website can be found at: http://stephaniepowellwatts.com/
