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Robert Wallace
A North Carolina novelist and short story writer, he brings a literary sensibility to stories shaped by place, memory, and family. His work ranges from award-winning short fiction to a reimagining of Caddy Compson’s life after The Sound and the Fury.
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The Doctrines of Predestination, Reprobation, and Election
by Robert Wallace
About the author
Robert Wallace is an author based in North Carolina whose fiction has appeared in the Bryant Literary Review, the Raleigh News & Observer, the International Journal of Comparative Literature and Translation Studies, and the anthology Racing Home: New Short Stories by Award Winning North Carolina Writers. He has also received a Writers’ Fellowship from the North Carolina Arts Council.
His books include The Sound and the Fury and the Way to Peace, A Hold on Time, and Smell the Bright Cold. On his author site, Smell the Bright Cold is described as a companion novel to William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury, imagining new adventures for Caddy Compson from New York to Rome.
Across his work, Wallace seems drawn to emotionally rich fiction with strong literary roots. His background in both short stories and novels suggests a writer interested in character, voice, and the long afterlife of family stories.