Banks is one of America's most respected writers: a two-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.For fans of The Poisonwood Bible and the work of William BoydAuthor tour and widespread media coverage

'Magnificent... I believed every word of it, forgot I was reading fiction. Russell Banks has created a story that is both shattering and reassuring, and a narrator, Bone, who will stay with me for the rest of my life.' Roddy Doyle on RULE OF THE BONE Everything about Affliction is impressive-- [It] will not let go of you, I swear, until you turn the last page." Elmore Leonard on AFFLICTION 'Russell Banks's work presents without falsehood and with tough affection the uncompromising moral voice of our time. You find the craziness of false dreams, the political inequalities, and somehow the sliver of redemption. I trust his portraits of America more than any other -- the burden of it, the need for it, the hell of it.' Michael Ondaatje on CLOUDSPLITTER

Russell Banks is the critically acclaimed author of Cloudsplitter, The Sweet Hereafter (the film by Atom Egoyan won the Grand Prix and International Critics Prize at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival), Rule of the Bone and Continental Drift, amongst others. A winner of numerous fellowships and prizes, he writes regularly for Vanity Fair, The New York Times Book Review, Esquire, and Harper's. Russell Banks currently lives in upstate New York.