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Bio.

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Brad Kessler

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Brad Kessler is the author of Birds in Fall (Scribner) and Lick Creek (Scribner), as well as several award-winning children's books. His work has appeared in numerous publications, including The New Yorker, The Nation, The Kenyon Review, The New York Times Magazine and Bomb. He is a recipient of the Lange-Taylor Prize from Duke University's Center for Documentary Studies. He lives in Vermont with his wife, the photographer Dona Ann McAdams.

Series

Books:

Birds in Fall, April 2006
Hardcover

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From the novel Birds in Fall

The smoke seeped in slowly and curled to the ceiling. The smell of burning plastic was distinct now. The video monitors were still working and showed we were twenty miles from Halifax. A man in a silk prayer shawl stood bobbing up and down in the aisle, the white cloth a cowl over his head. The girl with the earphones still lay fast asleep; no one apparently had woken her. Now and again a pilot or a flight attendant raced up the aisle, urging us to keep calm. We all had our life vests on by then - some inflated theirs against instructions, and you could hear the alarming pffffff of them filling with air. The cellist found my hand across the cello case and burrowed her fingers into mine, as if to hide them there. Others were grabbing hands across the aisles. I kept jerking open my jaw to pop the unbearable pressure in my ears; the cellist was doing the same. (I imagine, in the end, we all looked like fish.)

An eerie whistling filled the fuselage like someone blowing into a soda bottle. The cellist named the notes as we were going down. The pilot w

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Brad Kessler

American novelist

Brad Kessler (born February 15, 1963) is an American prize-winning novelist and non-fiction writer whose work has been translated into several languages. He is best known for his novel Birds in Fall which won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and his memoir Goat Song about living with goats and the culture of pastoralism.

Career

Kessler attended Wesleyan University where he studied with the writer Annie Dillard. In his early career he worked as a magazine journalist and an editor at Interview. He also wrote scripts for Rabbit Ears Production that were recorded by Denzel Washington, Ben Kingsley, John Cleese, Susan Sarandon, and Danny Glover.

In 2001, Scribner published his first novel Lick Creek, set in West Virginia in the nineteen twenties.

His second novel, Birds In Fall, was published in 2006 by Scribner. Set on a remote island off Nova Scotia, the novel is a retelling of the Greek myth of the Halcyon days. It follows the grief and recovery of ornithologist Anna Gathreaux and an international cast of characters after