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Sterling Watson, Professor of Literature and Creative
Writing and Director of the Creative Writing Program, M.A.,
University of Florida, is a fiction and screenwriter. His
main professional interests are fiction, play and screenwriting,
American, British and European short and long fiction, and the
theatre. He served for five years as the fiction editor of The
Florida Quarterly, and taught secondary English and later
fiction writing at Raiford Prison.
He is the author of five novels, Weep No More My Brother,
(Wm. Morrow, 1978, Delacorte, 1989), The Calling,
(Peachtree, 1986, Delacorte, 1989), Blind Tongues,
(Delacorte, 1989), Deadly Sweet, (Pocket Books, 1995), and
Sweet Dream Baby, (Sourcebooks, 2002).
Weep No More My Brother was nominated for the Rosenthal
Award, National Academy Institute of Arts and Letters. Pocket
Books nominated Deadly Sweet for the 1995 Edgar Award and
for the Hammett Prize. Sourcebooks nominated Sweet Dream
Baby for the National Book Award. He is the recipient of
four Florida Fine Arts Council grants for fiction writing and a
former fellow of The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and of
The MacDowell Colony. His short fiction and non-fiction have
appeared in Prairie Schooner, The Georgia Review,
The Los Angeles Times Book Review, The Fiction
Quarterly, The Michigan Quarterly Review, and The
Southern Review.
He has co-authored several screenplays, two of them based on his
novels, one with novelist, Dennis Lehane (Eckerd College
’88).
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