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Greg Bottoms

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Greg Bottoms is an American memoirist, essayist, and story writer. His books include the memoirs Angelhead: My Brother's Descent into Madness (2000) and Lowest White Boy (2019); the documentary essay collections The Colorful Apocalypse: Journeys in Outsider Art (2007) and Spiritual American Trash: Portraits from the Margins of Art of Faith (2013); and the cross-genre prose collections Sentimental, Heartbroken Rednecks (2001), Fight Scenes (2008) and Pitiful Criminals (2014). Acclaim for his books includes an Esquire nonfiction "Book of the Year," a Booksense Nonfiction Pick from independent book sellers, a "Top Indie Fiction Pick" from Library Journal, and long-list recognition from the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award (Ireland) and the Story Prize (U.S.). His writing has appeared in Agni, Brevity, Creative Nonfiction, Esquire, Harper’s, Oxford American, River Teeth, and in several anthologies, including Between Song and Story: Essays for the 21st Century.
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