Tony Earley (born 1961) is an American novelist and short story writer.
[1][2] Earley studied English at Warren Wilson College and after graduation in 1983, he spent four years as a reporter in North Carolina, first as a general assignment reporter for The Thermal Belt News Journal in Columbus, North Carolina, and then as sports editor and feature writer at The Daily Courier in Forest City, North Carolina.
The latter story helped Harper's win a National Magazine Award for Fiction in 1994.
His writing style has been compared by critics to writers as distant as a young Ernest Hemingway and E. B.
He lives with his wife and two daughters in Nashville, Tennessee, where he is the Samuel Milton Fleming Professor of English at Vanderbilt University.