William Henry Lewis was born in Denver and grew up in many cities, most significantly Chattanooga, Tennessee. In addition to teaching elementary, junior, and senior high school students, he has taught at the University of Virginia, Denison University, Mary Washington College, Trinity College, and most recently, the College of the Bahamas and Centre College, and is now Associate Professor of English at Colgate University in Hamilton, NY. His fiction has appeared in America's top literary journals and several anthologies, including Best American Short Stories of 1996. His first book, In the Arms of Our Elders, was published by Carolina Wren Press in 1995 and has since seen three printings. His second collection of stories, I Got Somebody in Staunton, was honored as a finalist for the PEN Faulkner Prize for Fiction, and has been named as a Fiction Honor Book for 2005 by the Black Caucus of the American Library Association and included in Kirkus Reviews listing for Best Books of 2005.William Henry Lewis
William Henry Lewis was born in Denver and grew up in many cities, most significantly Chattanooga, Tennessee. In addition to teaching elementary, junior, and senior high school students, he has taught at the University of Virginia, Denison University, Mary Washington College, Trinity College, and most recently, the College of the Bahamas and Centre College, and is now Associate Professor of English at Colgate University in Hamilton, NY. His fiction has appeared in America's top literary journals and several anthologies, including Best American Short Stories of 1996. His first book, In the Arms of Our Elders, was published by Carolina Wren Press in 1995 and has since seen three printings. His second collection of stories, I Got Somebody in Staunton, was honored as a finalist for the PEN Faulkner Prize for Fiction, and has been named as a Fiction Honor Book for 2005 by the Black Caucus of the American Library Association and included in Kirkus Reviews listing for Best Books of 2005.
