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Dennis Covington

Dennis Covington, a native of Birmingham, Alabama, has authored works of both young adult fiction and journalistic exposition. Director of the creative writing program at the University of Alabama--Birmingham, Covington also works as a freelance journalist. His first two published books, Lizard (1991) and Lasso the Moon (1995), are young adult novels, while the third, 1995's Salvation on Sand Mountain, is a nonfiction account of Covington's ventures into the unusual world of a snake-handling church. While all three have been critically lauded, Lizard and Salvation on Sand Mountain have both been selected for literary awards.

Dennis Covington awards include: the Delacorte Prize for young adult first novel, Delacorte Press, 1991, for Lizard; Barrie Stavis Playwriting Award for Best New Play of the Year, National Theater Conference, 1995, for adaptation of Lizard; National Book Award finalist, 1995, and Rea Non- Fiction Prize, Boston Book Review, 1996, both for Salvation on Sand Mountain. (Contemporary Authors Online. The Gale Group, 2001)

Bibliography:
Cleaving: the Story of a Marriage
Lizard
Lasso the Moon
Salvation on Sand Mountain

photo credit: Jim Neel

Last Updated:
18 May 2001