William T. Vollmann

<p>William T. Vollmann is the author of seven novels, three collections of stories, and a seven-volume critique of violence, <em>Rising Up and Rising Down</em>. He is also the author of <em>Poor People</em>, a worldwide examination of poverty through the eyes of the impoverished themselves; <em>Riding Toward Everywhere</em>, an examination of the train-hopping hobo lifestyle; and Imperial, a panoramic look at one of the poorest areas in America. He has won the PEN Center USA West Award for Fiction, a Shiva Naipaul Memorial Prize and a Whiting Writers' Award. His journalism and fiction have been published in <em>The New Yorker</em>, <em>Esquire</em>, <em>Spin</em> and <em>Granta</em>. Vollmann lives in Sacramento, California.</p>