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John Dufresne
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Featured Books
My Darling Boy
2025
No Regrets, Coyote
2013
FLASH!
2018
Storyville!
2020
Watch John’s 2014 TEDx Presentation:
“How to Write a Story”
Bio
John Dufresne has won the Yankee Magazine award for fiction, the Transatlantic
Review/Henfield Foundation Award, a PEN Syndicated Fiction award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. His novel Louisiana Power & Light was a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection and a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, 1994. He is also the author of a short story collection, The Way That Water Enters Stone, three chapbooks, Lethe, Cupid, Time and Love; Well Enough Alone; and I Will Eat a Piece of the Roof and You Can Eat the Window;
the novel, Love Warps the Mind a Little, also a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, 1997;
the novel Deep in the Shade of Paradise; the story collection Johnny Too Bad, the novel
Requiem, Mass., and most recently, the novel My Daring Boy.
In the Press
"John Dufresne has an unfathomable ability to make me laugh and break my heart, often in the space of a single sentence. My Darling Boy is both a lamentation and a celebration of the infinite mystery we call human nature. A masterwork."
Dennis Lehane,
author of SMALL MERCIES
"Improbably entertaining…My Darling Boy is a tale of parenthood, friendship and resolute love."
Heller McAlpin,
THE NEW YORK TIMES
"I suggest you don't blink when you read Dufresne's book―you may just miss something you'll never want to forget."
Cully Perlman,
author of THE LOSSES