Lawrence Naumoff (born July 23, 1946) is an American fiction writer who currently lives in Carrboro, North Carolina.
Early in his career he published several stories under the pseudonym Peter Nesovich.
His novel, Taller Women, a Cautionary Tale, was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year in 1992.
His most recent book, A Southern Tragedy, in Crimson and Yellow, although a novel and set over a number of years, is partially based on the true story of the 1991 Hamlet chicken processing plant fire.
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