Matthew F. Jones Book Talk

Matthew F. Jones is an American novelist and screenwriter. Jones grew up in rural upstate New York and currently lives in Charlottesville, Virginia. His novels have been translated into various foreign languages and several times have been named on best novels of the year lists. Three of his novels, A Single Shot, Deepwater and Boot Tracks, have been made into major motion pictures. He has taught creative writing at a number of colleges and universities, including Randolph Macon College, Lynchburg College and the University of Virginia. He grew up on a horse and dairy farm in rural upstate New York and currently lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Taylor Brown is a recipient of the Southern Book Prize, the Montana Prize in Fiction, the Rash Award for Fiction, the Audie Award in Fiction, the Weatherford Award in Fiction, and he was named the Georgia Author of the Year for Literary Fiction. His work has been a finalist for the Thomas Wolfe Fiction Prize, Doris Betts Fiction Prize, Townsend Prize in Fiction, Writer’s Digest Writing Competition, and others.