Robert Olen Butler

Robert Olen Butler has published nineteen novels and six volumes of short stories, one of which, A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain, won the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction. Among his many other awards, in 2013 he won the career-spanning F. Scott Fitzgerald Award for Outstanding Achievement in American Literature. His latest work is the 2025 novel Twice Around a Marriage. He teaches at Florida State University, and his book on the process of creating literary fiction, From Where You Dream, has been widely influential.