Background
Woodrell was born in Springfield, Missouri, in the southwestern corner of the state. He grew up in Missouri and dropped out of high school to join the Marines.
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Woodrell was born in Springfield, Missouri, in the southwestern corner of the state. He grew up in Missouri and dropped out of high school to join the Marines.
Later he earned a Bachelor from the University of Kansas and an Master of Fine Arts from the Iowa Writers" Workshop.
He has written eight novels, most of them set in the Missouri Ozarks. Woodrell coined the phrase "country noir" to describe his 1996 novel Give Us a Kiss. Reviewers have frequently since used the term to categorize his writing.
Woodrell has set most of his eight novels in the Missouri Ozarks, a landscape which he knew from childhood.
He has created novels based on crime, a style he termed "country noir", a phrase which has been adopted by commentators on his work. In addition to finding readers for his fiction, Woodrell has had two novels adapted for films.
Woodrell"s second novel, Woe to Live On (1987), was adapted for the 1999 film Ride with the Devil, directed by Ang Lee. The more recent Winter"s Bone (2006) was adapted by writer and director Debra Granik for a film of the same title, released commercially in June 2010 after winning two awards at the Sundance Film Festival, including the Grand Jury Prize for a dramatic film.
While filming a segment for Anthony Bourdain: Number Reservations, Woodrell was filmed breaking his shoulder in a boat fishing accident.
1999 Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association United States of America award for Fiction for his novel, Tomato Red (1998).
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