Background
Josh Russell was born in Carbondale, Illinois, United States; the son of a sociologist.
Baton Rouge, LA 70803, United States
In 1993 Josh Russell received a Master of Fine Arts degree from Louisiana State University.
(Marchand assists Daguerre in his discovery, then steals a...)
Marchand assists Daguerre in his discovery, then steals a camera and escapes to the United States, where he sets up his own shop in New Orleans. Because no one else knows how to make daguerrotypes and the images are fascinating to people who have never seen real-life pictures before, he does well until Daguerre publishes the facts of how pictures are taken, and shops spring up all over the country. However, a plague of yellow fever, known as "yellow jack," kills many people in New Orleans, and Marchand does a booming business taking memorial pictures of the dead.
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Josh Russell was born in Carbondale, Illinois, United States; the son of a sociologist.
In 1993 Josh Russell received a Master of Fine Arts degree from Louisiana State University.
Josh Russell’s first novel Yellow Jack is set in the 1840s and tells the story of Claude Marchand, an assistant to Daguerre, who invented the forerunner to the photograph, the daguerrotype.
Josh has also authored A True History of the Captivation, Transport to Strange Lands, & Deliverance of Hannah Guttentag and My Bright Midnight. His shorter prose appeared in the Greying Ghost Press chapbook Pretend You'll Do It Again, and in several dozen magazines, textbooks, and anthologies.
Russell is an associate editor at Five Points, where he recently edited a special issue of flash fiction, and faculty advisor for New South. He works at Georgia State University, where he is a professor of English and Director of the Creative Writing Program.
(Marchand assists Daguerre in his discovery, then steals a...)
1999Josh Russell is married and has a daughter.