The Ice-Shirt: Volume One of Seven Dreams: A Book of North American Landscapes - William T. Vollmann

William T. Vollmann is the author of ten novels, including Europe Central , which won the National Book Award. He has also written four collections of stories, including The Atlas , which won the PEN Center USA West Award for Fiction, a memoir, and six works of nonfiction, including Rising Up and Rising Down and Imperial , both of which were finalists for the National Book Critics Circle Award. He is the recipient of a Whiting Writers Award and the Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His journalism and fiction have been published in The New Yorker , Harpers , Esquire , Granta , and many other publications.