stage adaptations

Walking Across Egypt
Barter Theatre, VA: 2/14 - 5/11/13

Lunch at the Picadilly
York Theatre, NY: 2/22/12
Fesitval Stage of Winston Salem, NC: 2/4 - 2/20/11

film adaptations

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Killer Diller (2004)
Walking Across Egypt (1999)

Videos

Watch the book trailer for
The Night Train.

• On book trailers
• Interview about The Night Train on NC Bookwatch (UNC«TV)
• Tellin' Stories (reading and musical performance)
• UNCW Commencement Address (2009)

Clyde Edgerton

professor
Kenan Hall 1224 | edgertonc@uncw.edu
www.clydeedgerton.com

Background

PhD, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, curriculum and instruction, 1977
MAT, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, English education, 1972
BA, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, English education, 1966

Publications

Papadaddy's Book for New Fathers (May 2013) The Night Train (2011) The Bible Salesman (2008) Solo: My Adventures in the Air (Memoir) (2005) Lunch at the Piccadilly: A Novel (2003) Where Trouble Sleeps (1997) Redeye: A Western (1995) In Memory of Junior (1992) Killer Diller (1991) The Floatplane Notebooks (1988) Walking Across Egypt (1987) Raney (1985)

Awards

• Guggenheim Fellowship
  
• Lyndhurst Fellowship
  
• Five New York Times Notable Book awards
  
• North Carolina Award for Literature
  
• Membership in the Fellowship of Southern Writers

On Teaching

My definition of teaching is this: “Teaching is the act of inducing students to behave in ways assumed to lead to learning.” I believe students in our MFA program should think about and play with this definition as many of them will become teachers, teaching students with varying levels of motivation and curiosity. Additionally, our program can allow students to save time—by that I mean learn their craft more quickly than they could without the program. We have a very strong faculty. I believe talking about writing with faculty and with other motivated students can allow students to become confident in their beliefs about why and how they must write. I enjoy workshopping, and I encourage students to accept no advice that doesn’t make sense to them, to try to observe their world as if never seen, to cause the reader to SEE, and to avoid adverbs when possible.

Download an excerpt of Clyde Edgerton's work (PDF).
Listen to Clyde's NPR interview of advice for new dads.