Comments from the author about writing: From my earliest school days, when I wore handmade clothes to kindergarten and carried a fringed leather lunch satchel, I knew that my childhood experience in the mountains of Montana was different from everyone else’s. I write essays as experiments in explanation, efforts to make what was and is foreign in my life comprehensible, maybe even familiar, to a reader. In Down from the Mountaintop, like many memoirists, I try to make sense of my past.
Literary awards received and date received:
- Frederick Manfred Award, Western Literature Association, 2007
Book Types: Nonfiction
Audience Types: Adult
Genre: Essays, Memoir
Are you willing to do programs for schools, libraries, or other groups? Yes
If you are willing to do programs, will you charge a fee? Fees are negotiable.
E-mail Address: dolezalj@central.edu
Author's Web site: https://twitter.com/JoshuaDolezal
County: Marion
Books By This Author
- Down from the Mountaintop: From Belief to Belonging, University of Iowa Press, Iowa City, Iowa, 2014.