"One of the most distinctive voices of his generation."
-- Joyce Carol Oates

Benedict has been anthologized alongside the likes of Edger Allen Poe, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Mark Twain in the 1992 Oxford Book of American Short Stories.

Raw and emotional, Benedict crafts his prose with a decidedly masculine voice. The characters are gritty, the action is razor-sharp and the defining landscape is unnervingly real. Benedict recognizes in his native West Virginia a terrain rich with storytelling material. As Joyce Carol Oates writes in her introduction to The Oxford Book of American Short Stories, "indeed, in writers so clearly linked to an idiomatic oral tradition as Flannery O'Connor and the young West Virginian Pinckney Benedict, place is voice."

Benedict has taught at Hope College in Michigan and is now on staff as associate professor of English at Hollins University in Roanoke, VA.  

For another Benedict Bio, click here.

Bibliography: Town Smokes      selection, "The Sutton Pie Safe" Dogs of God* The Wrecking Yard Books purchased from Amazon via this site will help to fund the hosting of this website. * Benedict had mentioned developing a screenplay based on this work.

Film Industry Work:

• Writing credit for the 1999 film Four Days
  released September 12, 1999 at the Toronto Film Festival

Related Links:

• Voice of the Mountains

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