Education
Brown University; University of Notre Dame.
Brown University; University of Notre Dame.
He is perhaps best known as the author of a chapbook of poems, Cricket Weather and for his non-fiction work Mississippi: An American Journey. His work has appeared widely in magazines, journals, and anthologies, including The New Yorker, Kenyon Review, Oxford American, and Rainbow Darkness. He is currently a professor and the writer-in-residence at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine.
Walton grew up in Aurora, Illinois.
He studied at the University of Notre Dame and received an Master of Fine Arts from Brown University. In 1989, Walton wrote an essay for the New York Times Magazine, "Willie Horton and Maine," concerning race issues of the time.
He contributed to By J. Peder Zane"s 2004 Remarkable Reads: 34 Writers and Their Adventures in Reading ().