![]() ![]() ![]() Kessler’s memoir, Goat Song A Seasonal Life, A Short History of Herding, and the Art of Making Cheese was published by Scribner in 2009. It went on to win the 2007 Dayton Literary Peace Prize for fiction. Birds in Fall won critical acclaim and earned Kessler a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a Whiting Writer’s Award, and a Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. It follows the grief and recovery of ornithologist Anna Gathreaux and an international cast of characters after the crash of Swissair flight 111. Set on a remote island off Nova Scotia, the novel is a retelling of the Greek myth of the Halcyon days. His second novel, Birds In Fall, was published in 2006 by Scribner. In 2001, Scribner published his first novel Lick Creek, set in West Virginia in the nineteen twenties. He also wrote scripts for Rabbit Ears Production that were recorded by Denzel Washington, Ben Kingsley, John Cleese, Susan Sarandon, and Danny Glover. ![]() In his early career he worked as a magazine journalist and an editor at Interview. Kessler attended Wesleyan University where he studied with the writer Annie Dillard. He is best known for his novel Birds in Fall which won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and his memoir Goat Song about living with goats and the culture of pastoralism. Brad Kessler (born Feb 15, 1963) is a prize-winning novelist and non-fiction writer whose work has been translated into several languages. ![]()
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