Michael Martone has won the Bruno Arcudi Literature Prize, the AWP Book Award and the Pushcart Prize.
MICHAEL MARTONE currently teaches in the English department at University of Alabama. No stranger to the Midwest, he was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, attended Butler and Indiana Universities and taught at Iowa State University. He is the author of eight books including The Flatness and Other Landscapes (University of Georgia Press, 2000), Pensees: The Thoughts of Dan Quayle (Broadripple, 1992), Seeing Eye (Zoland, 1994) and Alive and Dead in Indiana (Knopf, 1984). Martone has won the Bruno Arcudi Literature Prize, the AWP Book Award and the Pushcart Prize.
"Michael Martone is a man with a mission, a fabulous inventor of history and memory, landscape and people. His quirky, magical tours hurl the reader across the borders between fact and fiction into a country of the mind where what we desire and fear fills our senses. Take the tops off your convertibles and fly! Indulge your secret curiosities! Trust The Blue Guide to Indiana to point you to some of the most delightful places on the planet."—Melanie Rae Thon
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