Description: Leaving Rollingstone is the story of how a Twin Cities advertising writer and novelist reclaimed the enduring values and surprising vitality of his small-town Minnesota boyhood.
Brief description: Kevin Fenton is the author of Merit Badges (2011), which won the AWP Award for the Novel (2011) and the Friends of American Writers Award (2011). He has worked in advertising for more than two decades, teaches fiction at The Loft Literary Center, and lives in St. Paul.
Review Quotes: "Leaving Rollingstone is the most important memoir to come out of the Midwest (or anywhere) in years, an indispensable work of American autobiography." Patricia Hampl, author of The Florist's Daughter and A Romantic Education "Kevin Fenton is one of the sweetest, most devilish writers out there." Peter Geye, author of Safe from the Sea and The Lighthouse Road