Description: "The life list of Adrian Mandrick was 2016 runner-up for the Faulkner Society's Gold Medal for Novel"--Copyright page.
Brief description: Chris White is an award-winning playwright and screenwriter, with an MFA in dramatic writing from NYUs Tisch School of the Arts. Her plays have been produced nationally and internationally, and her play, Rhythms, won the Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding New Play. She received anAward of Merit at the Womens Independent Film Festival for her feature-length screenplay, Weasel in the Icebox, and her short film, Mud Lotus, was an official selection at the New Hampshire, Albany, and Cincinnati Film Festivals. White is a professor of English at DePauw University teaching creative writing. She lives near the town of Bainbridge, Indiana on Big Walnut Creek. The Life List of Adrian Mandrickis her first novel.
Review Quotes: "With a birder's eye for detail, White takes us on [Adrian Mandrick's] painful, near death descent... [her] life-affirming conclusion reminds us that endangered species aren't the only ones that need to change and adapt in order to survive."-The New York Times Book Review