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Fictitious biographical snippets that celebrate the sky-written words of early aviation and the life of the man behind them.
List of contents
List of Skywriting
Some Early Ephemera
Panama
Hell
The Ampersand
Benday
A Father¿s Vision
A Field Guide to the Birds of Indiana
Mom
Further Writing
When
The Tragic Elopement
If
The Unknown
String
WOWO
Scale
Word Cross
Instructions in War Time
Iced Air
Influenza
Still
Mayday, Mayday, Mayday
O
Thin
Birth
Nothing
Roses
The Moon
Lucky
The Falling Leaf
Gas City
Rest
The Border
A B C
Metro Day
Terra Haute
Ohio
French Lick
Good Night
About the author
Michael Martone was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where he learned at a very early age about Art Smith, ¿The Bird Boy of Fort Wayne,¿ and the adventures of this early aviation pioneer. Martone has written or edited over twenty books of fiction, nonfiction, essays, and short stories, including
The Moon over Wapakoneta (FC2, 2018),
Brooding (University of Georgia Press, 2018),
Winesburg, Indiana (Indiana University Press, 2015),
Four for a Quarter (FC2, 2011), and
Michael Martone (FC2, 2005), a memoir in contributor's notes. His stories and essays have appeared in
The Best American Stories,
The Best American Essays,
Harper's,
Esquire,
Denver Quarterly,
Iowa Review,
Bomb,
American Short Fiction, and elsewhere.
He attended Butler University and graduated from Indiana University. He holds an MA from The Writing Seminars of The Johns Hopkins University. He is the recipient of two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and a grant from the Ingram Merril Foundation. Among his numerous awards, he received the Indiana Authors Award in 2013 and the Mark Twain Award for Distinguished Contribution to Midwestern Literature in 2016.
Michael Martone is currently a Professor at the University of Alabama, where he has been teaching since 1996. He has been a faculty member of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College since 1988. He has taught at Iowa State University, Harvard University, and Syracuse University. He lives in Tuscaloosa, AL.
Summary
Fictitious biographical snippets that celebrate the sky-written words of early aviation and the life of the man behind them.
Foreword
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