David LongDavid Long is an American short story writer and novelist. He graduated from the University of Montana’s Creative Writing program in 1974. He taught in Kalispell, Montana and for Pacific University. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, GQ, Story,and has earned him an O. Henry Award, a Pushcart Prize, and a Rosenthal Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is the author of the story collections Home Fires (1982), The Flood of ’64 (1987), and Blue Spruce (1995), and the novels The Falling Boy (1997), The Daughters of Simon Lamoreaux (2000), and The Inhabited World (2006). He and his wife Susan live in Tacoma, Washington. Read More Read Less