Roy Blount, Jr.

Roy Blount, Jr. is the author of 20 books, including Feet on the Street: Rambles Around New Orleans, Roy Blount's book of Southern Humor, and the forthcoming Long Time Leaving: Dispatches from Up South, which collects his columns from The Oxford American.  His works have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Esquire, Antaeus, The New York Times, The Southern Review, Gourmet, and Sports Illustrated.  Blount earned English degrees from Vanderbilt and Harvard Universities and now lives in western Massachusetts. Blount is a new member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers.