John Russell

John Russell was born in Greensboro, North Carolina in 1954, just days before Hurricane Hazel hit town, and weeks after the Supreme Court's decision in Brown vs the Board of Education began to change the local rules. After graduating from the University of North Carolina, he moved to New York and went to graduate school at Columbia, and then worked in the publishing industry, where he edited manuscripts by writers as varied as Pat Conroy and Virgil Thomson. He went to law school at Harvard, and returned to North Carolina to work in the life sciences field. In 1992 he published a political novel, FAVORITE SONS, which won the Sir Walter Raleigh Award for Fiction. His latest novel, ALL THE RIGHT CIRCLES, has been hailed by Lee Smith as "... a latter-day ALL THE KINGS MEN -- a smart, provocative, and engaging read."