Mark Childress (born 1957) is an American novelist and Southern writer.
Born in Monroeville, Alabama, Childress grew up in Ohio, Indiana, Mississippi, and Louisiana.
He wrote three picture books for children: Joshua and Bigtooth,[2] Joshua and the Big Bad Blue Crabs,[3] and Henry Bobbity Is Missing And It Is All Billy Bobbity's Fault.
One Mississippi[7] was a summer reading selection of Good Morning America, O: The Oprah Magazine, People magazine, the Los Angeles Times, and the Wall Street Journal, and was nominated for the Southeastern Independent Booksellers Association's "Book of the Year" award.
Stephen King named One Mississippi[7] as #3 on his list of the "Ten Best Books of 2006" in Entertainment Weekly.