{"product_id":"last-mountain-dancer","title":"Last Mountain Dancer","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"panel px-0 coda-slider-9-panel ls-panel currentPanel\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"panel-wrapper px-1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"panel-vestige\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThis gonzo-style metamemoir follows Chuck Kinder on a wild tour of the back roads of his home state of West Virginia, where he encounters Mountain State legends like Sid Hatfield, Dagmar, Robert C. Byrd, the Mothman, Chuck Yeager, Soupy Sales, Don Knotts, and Jesco White, the “Dancing Outlaw.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChuck Kinder\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of four novels\u003cstrong\u003e—\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003eSnakehunter, The Silver Ghost, Honeymooners,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003eand\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eLast Mountain Dancer\u003c\/em\u003e—and three collections of poetry—\u003cem\u003eImagination Motel, All That Yellow,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003eand\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eHot Jewels.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKinder was born and raised in West Virginia. He received a BA and MA in English from West Virginia University, where he wrote the first creative writing thesis in school history, which evolved into his first novel,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eSnakehunter\u003c\/em\u003e. He later caught a Greyhound and headed west to join friends living in San Francisco.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1971 Kinder was awarded the Edith Mirrielees Writing Fellowship to Stanford University, followed by the Jones Lectureship in Fiction Writing. He has been a writer-in-residence at the University of California, Davis, and at the University of Alabama, and he is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts grant and Yaddo’s Dorothy and Granville Hicks Fellowship.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt Stanford, Kinder became close friends with fellow students Raymond Carver, Scott Turow, and Larry McMurtry. His relationship with Carver inspired\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eHoneymooners\u003c\/em\u003e. His struggle to complete this book inspired the character Grady Tripp in Michael Chabon’s\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eWonder Boys\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs a professor of creative writing at the University of Pittsburgh for more than three decades, Kinder served as the director of the creative writing program and helped foster the careers of Michael Chabon, Earl H. McDaniel, Chuck Rosenthal, Gretchen Moran Laskas, and Keely Bowers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe now lives in Key Largo, Florida, with Diane Cecily, his wife of over forty years.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"817 UChicago Press Dist.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39503627649159,"sku":"Kinder 9781946684516","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0363\/1621\/7479\/products\/kinder_dancer_des_cov_sm_rgb.jpg?v=1628182338","url":"https:\/\/shoptheredcaboosewv.com\/products\/last-mountain-dancer","provider":"The Red Caboose","version":"1.0","type":"link"}