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  • Bibliography:
    9 Books
  • First Book:
    August 1985
  • Latest Book:
    March 2011
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Book List in Order: 9 titles



  • Mark Childress is an artist with an ear comparable to Eudora Welty's. I haven't read a Southern novel since Losing Battles that has given me such pleasure. - Harper Lee. An extraordinary burst of praise greeted Mark Childress's enthralling first nove...



  • It is 1943 in Mobile, Alabama. While the world prepares for war, sixteen-year-old Victor -- sent to care for his grandmother -- yearns to be part of the unfolding patriotic adventure. Victor's wish comes true, and he embarks on a suspenseful series o...



  • "A big, all American, Technicolor dreamboat of a book...This is a great novel."
    STEPHEN KING
    In TENDER, novelist Mark Childress has redefined the American epic. He takes us on a wild ride through the last three decades as his fictional hero, Le...



  • Living with his family in a log cabin on the banks of the Magnolia River, Joshua makes a pet of a tiny alligator that he calls Bigtooth, but his problems begin when his tiny pet starts to grow--and grow....



  • Comic and tragic, unique and outlandish, CRAZY IN ALABAMA is the story of two journeys--Lucille's from Industry, Alabama, to Los Angeles, to star on 'THE BEVERLY HILL BILLIES' and her 12-year-old nephew Peejoe's, who is about to discover two kinds of...



  • Setting out on his boat to deliver a huckleberry pie to his granny, young Joshua is astonished when a mob of crabs raids the boat and steals the tasty fare, and he becomes equally frustrated when no one believes his story....



  • By the time Newsweek dubs thirty-four-year-old Ben (Superman) Willis "The New Super-Poet of Pop," he has millions of adoring fans, piles of money, a beautiful family--and a secret desire to chuck it all and disappear forever. He gets his wish after a...



  • You need only one best friend, Daniel Musgrove figures, to make it through high school alive. After his family moves to Mississippi just before his junior year, Daniel finds fellow outsider Tim Cousins. The two become inseparable, sharing a fascinati...



  • Georgia Bottoms is known in her small community of Six Points, Alabama, as a beautiful, well-to-do, and devoutly Baptist Southern belle. Nobody realizes that the family fortune has long since disappeared, and a determinedly single woman like Georg...





Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Mark Childress has published 9 books.

Mark Childress does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Georgia Bottoms, was published in March 2011.

The first book by Mark Childress, A World Made of Fire, was published in August 1985.

No. Mark Childress does not write books in series.