Bill Roorbach is an author.
From his website:
Bill Roorbach’s next book is BEEP, about a monkey who saves the world! Coming July 16, 2024 from Algonquin. Also from Algonquin are the critically acclaimed novel Lucky Turtle (2022), a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice and winner of a Montana Book Award; The Girl of the Lake: Stories (2017), longlisted for the Story Prize; Kirkus Prize fiction shortlist finalist The Remedy for Love (2015); and the bestselling novel Life Among Giants (2012), which won the Maine Literary Award in fiction and was optioned and developed for an HBO series, though never aired. Nonfiction includes a tryptic of memoirs in nature: Temple Stream (Dial Press/Random House 2005, Downeast Books 2016), which won the Maine Literary Award in nonfiction; Into Woods, (Notre Dame 2002, Downeast Books 2018) which was excerpted as a cover story in Harper’s Magazine; and Summers with Juliet (Houghton Mifflin 1992), Bill’s first book and a classic of nature writing, excerpted internationally in Granta #33. His first novel, The Smallest Color (2001), stars an Olympic ski coach and troubled son of the 60s, and sold out its only printing. Big Bend: Stories (2000) won the Flannery O’Connor Award, and the title story, featured in The Atlantic Monthly, won an O. Henry Prize that same year and was featured on the NPR program Selected Shorts, as read by actor James Cromwell live at the Getty Center in Los Angeles. Books of instruction include Writing Life Stories (1998 Story Press and 2018 Penguin RandomHouse), and The Art of Truth: Contemporary Creative Nonfiction (Oxford University Press, 2000). Both are used in writing programs around the country to this day. Remarkably, all but one of Bill’s books are still in print and available wherever you like to buy books, preferably your local independent bookstore. Or find them in your town or school library. Bill lives with his family in Scarborough and Farmington, Maine.
Portrait by Lauryn Sophia
