Roy Blount, Jr. (b. 1941)
Biography
Roy Alton Blount, Jr. was born on October 4, 1941 in Indianapolis, Indiana and raised in Decatur, Georgia. Blount attended Vanderbilt University in
Nashville, Tennessee, where he graduated with his B.A. in 1963; he then continued to Harvard University to receive his M.A. in 1964. He worked as a newspaper reported in Georgia
and Louisiana before taking a position as a staff writer and editor for Sports Illustrated in 1968, where he stayed until 1975. In 1982, he became an editor and contributor to the Atlantic Monthly. Blount has written screenplays and songs as well as prose. He has even acted, appearing in his own one-man show in the 1980's. He considers himself a Southern man and is a member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers, in addition to his duties as President of the Author's Guild. He regularly performs with his band, The Rock Bottom Remainders, a group of notable writers who enjoy music and formed a band. They also perform a benefit concert once a year to help literacy.
Bibliography
Fiction
Non-Fiction
- About Three Bricks Shy of a Load: A Highly Irregular Lowdown on the Year the Pittsburgh
Steelers Were Super but Missed the Bowl (1974)
- Crackers (1980)
- One Fell Soup, or, I'm Just a Bug on the Windshield of Life (1982)
- What Men Don't Tell Women (1984)
- Not Exactly What I Had in Mind (1985)
- It Grows on You: A Hair-Raising Survey of Human Plumage (1986)
- Soupsongs (1987)
- Webster's Ark (1987)
- Now Where Were We? (1988)
- The Baseball Hall of Fame 50th Anniversary Book (contributor, 1988)
- About Three Bricks Shy...and the Load Filled Up: The Story of the Greatest Football Team
Ever (1989)
- Camels Are Easy, Comedy's Hard (1991)
- Roy Blount's Book of Southern Humor (editor, 1994)
- If Only You Knew How Much I Smell You: True Portraits of Dogs (1998)
- Be Sweet: A Conditional Love Story (1998)
- Gladiators: 40 Years of Football (2000)
- I Am Puppy, Hear Me Yap: Ages of a Dog (with Valerie Shaff, 2000)
- Am I Pig Enough for You Yet?: Voices of the Barnyard (with Valerie Shaff, 2001)
- Robert E. Lee (2003)
- I Am the Cat, Don't Forget That: Feline Expressions (with Valerie Shaff, 2004)
- Feet on the Street: Rambles Around New Orleans (2005)
- Long Time Leaving: Dispatches from Up South (2007)
- Alphabet Juice: The Energies, Gists, and Spirits of Letters, Words, and Combinations Thereof; Their Roots, Bones, Innards, Piths, Pips, and Secret Parts, Tinctures, Tonics, and Essences; With Examples of Their Usage Foul and Savory (2008)
- Hail, Hail, Euphoria!: Presenting the Marx Brothers in Duck Soup, the Greatest War Movie Ever Made (2010)
Screenplays
- Nickel and Dime (with Garry Williams and Pen Densham, 1995)
- The Main Stream (PBS, 2002)(Blount also narrated this when it appeared on PBS)
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