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David Payne

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Fiction, Memoir

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January 2015


David Payne was born in North Carolina and attended the Phillips Exeter Academy and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of five novels-- Confessions of a Taoist on Wall Street, Early From the Dance, Ruin Creek, Gravesend Light, Back to Wando Passo--and a memoir, Barefoot to Avalon: A Brother's Story, forthcoming from Grove Atlantic in August 2015. Visit his author website at www.davidpaynebooks.com.

Linda Barrett Osborne, Washington Post Book World:
"[Payne] understands that place most families inhabit-somewhere between love and necessity, between truth and myth, between self and the expectations, the dreams and, ultimately, the separateness of others... Writing this fine evokes a past time, but also a state of b ...more

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Average rating: 3.78 · 1,976 ratings · 253 reviews · 6 distinct works • Similar authors
Barefoot to Avalon: A Broth...
3.77 avg rating — 663 ratings — published 2015 — 7 editions
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Early from the Dance
4.10 avg rating — 461 ratings — published 1989 — 16 editions
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Ruin Creek
3.78 avg rating — 257 ratings — published 1993 — 8 editions
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Back to Wando Passo
3.30 avg rating — 243 ratings — published 2006 — 25 editions
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Gravesend Light
3.56 avg rating — 202 ratings — published 2000 — 13 editions
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Confessions of a Taoist on ...
3.90 avg rating — 150 ratings — published 1984 — 21 editions
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