Woiwode, Larry 1941–

Woiwode is an American novelist and poet who has been compared to Proust for his delicate, detailed chronicle of a midwestern family in Beyond the Bedroom Wall. He was awarded the William Faulkner Award for the best first novel in 1969 for What I'm Going to Do, I Think. (See also CLC, Vol. 6, and Contemporary Authors, Vols. 73-76.)