Dolezal, Joshua

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.