Clyde Edgerton

Clyde Edgerton is the author of eight novels, including In Memory of Junior, Redeye, and Walking Across Egypt. His first nonfiction book, about flying airplanes, is due from Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill in September 2005. He teaches in the MFA program at the University of North Carolina Wilmington.

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A Tree Walks: Mesa Verde Saves a Novel

The Starting Place In the early nineties I overheard a conversation in which a mother said she wouldn’t let her child, Will, play with the children who lived next door to her. For one thing, the neighbors ate out too…