David Rhodes
<DIV>As a young man, David Rhodes worked in fields, hospitals, and factories across Iowa. After receiving an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in 1971, he published <EM>The Last Fair Deal Going Down</EM> (Atlantic/Little Brown, 1972), <iThe Easter House</EM> (Harper & Row, 1974), and <iRock Island Line</EM> (Milkweed Editions, 2008). In 1977 a motorcycle accident left him paralyzed from the chest down. First published in hardcover in 2008, <EM>Driftless</EM> was David Rhodes’ first novel in thirty years. A 2008 <EM>Booklist</EM> Editors’ Choice selection, <EM>Driftless</EM> garnered attention in the <EM>Wall Street Journal</EM>, <EM>Poets & Writers</EM>, <EM>New Yorker</EM>, <EM>Bookforum</EM>, <EM>Christian Science Monitor</EM>, <EM>Books & Culture</EM>, <EM>Time Out Chicago</EM>, <EM>Philadelphia City Paper</EM>, <EM>Minneapolis Star Tribune</EM>, <EM>Chicago Tribune</EM>, <EM>Des Moines Register</EM>, <EM>Milwaukee Journal Sentinel</EM>, <EM>California Literary Review</EM>, and on National Public Radio. Rhodes has also contributed to the <EM>New York Times</EM>. He lives with his wife, Edna, in rural Wisconsin.</DIV>