About...
John Pipkin was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and attended
Washington and Lee University, the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Rice University—where he
received his Ph.D. in British Literature in 1997. He has
worked as an Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Humanities
at Boston University, as an editor in educational
publishing, and most recently as the Executive Director of
the Writers’ League of Texas, a non-profit organization
promoting literacy and the literary arts. He currently lives
in Austin, Texas with his wife and son. WOODSBURNER is his
first novel. 
Awards and Special Recognition...
WOODSBURNER
 | Best of April 2009 selection by Amazon editors |
| Best Fiction Books of 2009 by the Christian Science Monitor |
| Best Fiction Books of 2009 by the Washington Post |
| Best Fiction Books of 2009 by the San Francisco Chronicle
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| Center for Fiction Prize granted by The Mercantile Library of New York
for the best debut novel of 2009 |
| Fiction Award from the Massachusetts Center for the Book for
2010 |
| The Texas Institute of Letters awarded Woodsburner the 2010
Steven Turner Award for First Novel Prize |
| The University of Texas at Austin awarded John Pipkin a 2010
Dobie Paisano Writing Fellowship |
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