North of Ordinary - John Rolfe Gardiner

John Rolfe Gardiner was born in New York and grew up in the Washington, D.C. suburbs of Northern Virginia during World War II. Recipient of a Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writers Award and National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, he is the author of six novels and four collections of short fiction, including North of Ordinary . His stories have appeared in the New Yorker , American Scholar , Oxford American , One Story , Pushcart Prize anthology, PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories , Best American Short Stories , and elsewhere. Gardiner lives in Middleburg, Virginia, with his wife, ceramic artist Joan Gardiner.