Padgett Powell is an American novelist in the Southern literary tradition. His debut novel, Edisto (1984), was nominated for the National Book Award and was excerpted in The New Yorker.
Novels • Edisto (1984) • A Woman Named Drown (1987) • Edisto Revisited (1996) • ''Mrs. Hollingsworth's Men (2000; reissued in 2014 as Hologram'') • The Interrogative Mood: A Novel? (2009) • You & Me (2012) Novella • The New Book (2024; from the anthology Blasphemy and Other Ancestors) Story collections • Typical (1991) • Aliens of Affection (1998) • Cries for Help, Various (2015) Essay collection • Indigo (2021) Essays • "Tangled Up in Indigo," Garden & Gun, April/May 2015 • "Tin House" (blog), October 15, 2015 ==References==