Matt Bondurant author biography, plus links to books by Matt Bondurant.

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Matt Bondurant

Matt Bondurant's second novel The Wettest County in the World was a New York Times Editor's Pick, and one of the San Francisco Chronicle's Best 50 Books of the Year. His first novel The Third Translation (Hyperion 2005) was an international bestseller, translated into 14 languages worldwide. His short fiction has appeared in journals such as Prairie Schooner, The New England Review, and Glimmer Train, among others. He currently teaches literature and writing in the Arts & Humanities graduate program at the University of Texas at Dallas. For more information, visit www.mattbondurant.com.

This biography was last updated on 01/10/2012.

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