Robert Olen Butler
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- Author: Robert Olen Butler
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Although highly praised as a novelist, Robert Olen Butler has received his greatest acclaim for his work as a writer of short stories. He achieved national recognition in 1992 for A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain, a celebrated collection of short stories about Vietnamese refugees settled in communities in Louisiana. He has also published several other books of short stories, including Tabloid Dreams (1996), Had a Good Time: Stories from American Postcards (2004), Severance (2006), and Intercourse (2008). The...
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