Robert Olen Butler (Critical Survey of Long Fiction)
Other Literary Forms
Although highly praised as a novelist, Robert Olen Butler has received his greatest acclaim for his work as a writer of short stories, especially for his 1992 book, A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain, a celebrated collection of short stories about Vietnamese refugees settled in communities in Louisiana.
Achievements
Before succeeding as an author, Butler wrote several unpublished novels, and his first published work, The Alleys of Eden, was rejected by at least twenty publishers before it was finally accepted. In spite of...
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