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Daniel Woodrell lives in the Missouri Ozarks near the Arkansas line. His five most recent novels were selected as New York Times Notable Books of the Year, and TOMATO RED won the PEN West Award for the Novel. Two novels have been adapted as major motion pictures: WOE TO LIVE ON(filmed in 1999 by Ang Lee as RIDE WITH THE DEVIL, starring Tobey Maguire & Skeet Ulrich) and WINTER'S BONE(2010; accepted to the U.S. Dramatic Competition category at Sundance). He is at work on his next novel, due from Little, Brown in 2011.

Back in print, an acclaimed crime novel set in the Ozarks.

Christopher Tayler

Advertising its genre as 'country noir', Tomato Red keeps up a creditable impersonation of a thriller....Woodrell's novels veer disconcertingly, clumsily, sometimes brilliantly, between burlesquing the genres they ostensibly inhabit and investing them with an unexpected authenticity. —London Review of Books