Rising Up and Rising Down: Some Thoughts on Violence, Freedom and Urgent Means - William T. Vollmann

Vollmann, William T.: - William T. Vollmann is the author of seven novels, three collections of stories, and a seven-volume critique of violence, Rising Up and Rising Down . He is also the author of Poor People , a worldwide examination of poverty through the eyes of the impoverished themselves; Riding Toward Everywhere , an examination of the train-hopping hobo lifestyle; and Imperial, a panoramic look at one of the poorest areas in America. He has won the PEN Center USA West Award for Fiction, a Shiva Naipaul Memorial Prize and a Whiting Writers' Award. His journalism and fiction have been published in The New Yorker , Esquire , Spin and Granta . Vollmann lives in Sacramento, California.