He was the winner of a 1996 Whiting Award for his novel Home for a Day.
[1] He is originally from Wilson County, North Carolina.
[2] ...Ferrell's mismanaged plot device fails to spoil his novel.
His melodious backtracking and sweet-tea atmospherics, along with his catty eye for small-town social distinctions and his keen ear for fence-line gossip, imbue much of Have You Heard with a juicy charm.
Like the world at large, though, it would be far better off without gay-baiting politicians and town-square gunfire.