Padgett Powell (born April 25, 1952 in Gainesville, Florida)[1] is an American novelist in the Southern literary tradition.
His debut novel, Edisto (1984), was nominated for the National Book Award and was excerpted in The New Yorker.
[2] Powell has written five more novels—including A Woman Named Drown (1987); Edisto Revisited (1996), a sequel to his debut; Mrs. Hollingsworth's Men (2000); The Interrogative Mood: A Novel?
In addition to The New Yorker, Powell's work has appeared in The Paris Review, Harper's, Grand Street, Oxford American, The New York Times Book Review, and other publications.
Powell has been a writing professor at the University of Florida since 1984.