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  • Bibliography:
    17 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    December 1988
  • Latest Book:
    February 2020
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Full Series List in Order

Seven Dreams

1 - The Ice-shirt (Oct-1990)
2 - Fathers and Crows (Jul-1992)
3 - Argall (Dec-2002)
6 - The Rifles (Mar-1994)

Book List in Order: 17 titles



  • The debut work of fiction from the National Book Award-winning author of Europe Central
     
    Watch for Vollmann’s new work of nonfiction, No Immediate Danger, coming in April of 2018

    You Bright and Risen Angels is the work of an extrao...



  • From a writer who has won comparison with Thomas Pynchon and William S. Burroughs comes thirteen unnerving and often breathtaking stories populated by punks and angels, skinheads and religious assassins, streetwalkers and fetishists--people who live ...



  • A majestic fictional evocation of the Norse arrival in the New World, from the National Book Award-winning author of Europe Central
     
    The time is the tenth century A.D. The newcomers are a proud and bloody-minded people whose kings once chang...



  • With his first three works of fiction -- the novels You Bright and Risen Angels and The Ice-Shirt, and the collection The Rainbow Stories -- William T. Vollmann announced himself as a writer of rare and ferocious talent, with critics comparing him to...



  • The story of the wars of belief between the French Jesuits and the Iroquois in sixteenth- to eighteenth-century Canada â€" from the author of Europe Central, winner of the National Book Award

    With the same panoramic vision and mythic sensibili...



  • A collection of stories by the author of Whores for Gloria, You Bright and Risen Angels, The Rainbow Stories, The Ice Shirt, and An Afghanistan Picture Show features tales of pimps, tramps, pornographers, and witch doctors....



  • The story of John Franklin’s doomed 1845 attempt to discover a Northwest Passage, from the National Book Award-winning author of Europe Central

    Vaulting through time to another flashpoint in the long struggle between Indians and Europeans, W...




  • Winner of the PEN Center USA West Award for Fiction â€" a collection of fifty-three interconnected stories by the National Book Award-winning author of Europe CentralHailed by Newsday as "the most unconventional--and possibly the most exciting and im...






  • A rich, haunting novel of street life in San Francisco’s Mission District, from the National Book Award-winning author of Europe CentralIn The Royal Family, William T. Vollmann uses the story of two brothers to construct a haunting series of p...



  • From the National Book Award-winning author of Europe Central â€" a hugely original fictional history of Pocahontas, John Smith, and the Jamestown colony in VirginiaIn Argall, the third novel in his Seven Dreams series, William T. Vollmann alternates...



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    William T. Vollmann is one of our greatest living writers. Masterworks such as You Bright and Risen Angels, The Royal Family, and Rising Up and Rising Down--his latest work, a stunning 3,300-page tour de for...



  • WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDA daring literary masterpiece of historical fiction that weaves together the gripping stories of those caught in the web of authoritarian rule.Through interwoven narratives that paint a portrait of 20th century German...



  • What is a woman? To what extent is femininity a performance? Writing with the extraordin-ary awareness and endless curiosity that have defined his entire oeuvre, William T. Vollmann takes an in-depth look into the Japanese craft of Noh theater, using...



  • In this magnificent new work of fiction, his first in nine years, celebrated author William T. Vollmann offers a collection of ghost stories linked by themes of love, death, and the erotic. A Bohemian farmer’s dead wife returns to him, and thei...



  • The National Book Award winner takes readers inside the epic fighting retreat of the Nez Perce Indians In this new installment in his acclaimed series of novels examining the collisions between Native Americans and European colonizers, William T....



  • The National Book Award winning author returns to his original fictional territory--the lives of the dispossessed in San Francisco--with a parable about the limitations of desire and life at the margins of society In such earlier works of fiction ...


Award-Winning Books by William Vollmann

The Atlas
1997 PEN Literary Award -- Fiction


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

William Vollmann has published 17 books.

William Vollmann does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Lucky Star, was published in February 2020.

The first book by William Vollmann, You Bright and Risen Angels, was published in December 1988.

Yes. William Vollmann has 1 series.