Saints at the River
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Reviews of Saints at the River
- Kirkus Review of Saints
- Charlotte Public LibraryA short review from the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Public Library.
About the Author
Ron Rash
Ron Rash was born in Chester, South Carolina, where both his mother and his father worked in a textile mill. When he was seven years old, his family moved back to western North Carolina, a region where Rash's ancestors had lived since the mid-1700s. Rash's father went to night school to complete a college degree and later became a professor at Gardner-Webb College in Boiling Springs, North Carolina, where Rash himself would later earn his bachelor's degree.
Rash returned to South Carolina to attend graduate school, where he met and married his wife, a fellow student. His teaching career has included positions at colleges and universities in the Carolinas. In an interview with Jack Shuler for the South Carolina Review, Rash stated, "I don't like living in cities." Rash's poetry, short stories, and novels often focus on the lives of people in rural, southern settings.
"Ron Rash." Contemporary Authors Online. Detroit: Gale, 2010. Gale Biography In Context. Web. 31 May 2012.
Ron Rash Links
- A 2006 Interview with Ron RashFrom the website "Authors 'round the South."
- His Daughter, Their River in an Agonizing EmbraceA 1999 LA Times article about a father's fight with nature and environment law for the body of his daughter trapped for weeks in the perilous rapids of the Chattooga River
- Language Can Be MagicalAn interview with Ron Rash by Southern Scribe.
- Recovery at Raven ChuteAn article from the Chattooga Quarterly describing the 1999 drowning of a young woman in Raven Chute on the Chattooga River. The article starts on page 7.
- Ron Rash Interview in the Morning NewsRobert Birnbaum talks to one of the Carolinas’ favorite sons about the strengths of southern writers, the benefits of teaching welders, and the crushing reality that awaits MFA grads.
- Ron Rash, Parris Distinguished Professor of Appalachian Cultural StudiesA profile at the Western Carolina University website.
- Saints at the River and Selected PoemsIn these four short videos, southern Appalachian poet Ron Rash reads three poems and an excerpt from his novel, Saints at the River.
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