Dirt

by Bill Buford

  A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  Bill Buford is the author of Heat and Among the Thugs. He has received a Marshall Scholarship, a James Beard Award, and the Comune di Roma’s Premio Sandro Onofri for narrative reportage. For eighteen years, Buford lived in England, where he was the founding editor of the literary magazine Granta and the founding publisher of Granta Books. He moved to the United States in 1995 to join The New Yorker, where he has been the fiction editor, a staff writer, and a regular contributor. In 2008, he moved with his family to Lyon, France, and lived there for five years. He was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, educated at UC Berkeley and Kings College, Cambridge, and now lives in New York City with his wife, the wine educator and writer Jessica Green, and their twin sons.

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