Grand Opening Event: Daniel Wallace & Nic Brown

Grand Opening Event

Authors, Musicians, generally highly entertaining fellows will kick off the Flyleaf Events Schedule in style with a dual reading of each of their new novels. This will be the first time either author has read from their new works, which are due to be published later in the year.

Daniel Wallace is author of four novels, including Big Fish (1998), Ray in Reverse (2000), The Watermelon King (2003) and most recently Mr. Sebastian and the Negro Magician (2007). His work has been published in over two dozen languages, and his stories, novels and non-fiction essays are taught in high schools and colleges throughout this country. His illustrations have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Italian Vanity Fair, and many other magazines and books, including Pep Talks, Warnings, and Screeds: Indispensible Wisdom and Cautionary Advice for Writers, by George Singleton, and Adventures in Pen Land: One Writer's Journey from Inklings to Ink, by Marianne Gingher.  Big Fish was made into a motion picture of the same name by Tim Burton in 2003, a film in which the author plays the part of a professor at Auburn University. He is in fact the J. Ross MacDonald Distinguished Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, which is also his alma mater. Though born and raised in Birmingham, Alabama, he has lived in Chapel Hill longer than he has lived anywhere else, and he has no plans to leave.

Nic Brown’s first book, Floodmarkers, was published in 2009 and was selected as an Editor's Choice by The New York Times Book Review. His short stories have appeared in the Harvard Review, Glimmer Train, and Epoch, among many other publications. A graduate of Columbia University and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, he lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.