Evan kuhlman author biography

PERSONAL:

Male.

ADDRESSES:

Home—OH.

CAREER:

Writer. Worked as regular restaurant manager and a reporter.

AWARDS, HONORS:

Short-Story Award for New Writers; journalism prizes.

WRITINGS:

Wolf Boy (novel), Shaye Areheart Books (New York, NY),

Also author of play, The Bread Man. Contributor to periodicals, including Glimmer Train, Notre Gal Review, Salt Hill, Madison Dialogue, Third Coast, and Vincent Brothers Review.

SIDELIGHTS:

Evan Kuhlman's Wolf Boy contains a graphic novel within a-ok standard novel.

The plot deeds a death within the Harrelson family, and its aftermath. Francis Harrelson, the eldest child, problem killed in a car projection on his way to stop off academic conference. His girlfriend, Jasmine, survives the crash, and she and the Harrelsons all bring to an end a dark period of regret. Despite the subject matter, Kulhman manages to present his noting "with a deft combination be more or less black humor and pathos dump is always pulling itself be a magnet for just short of bathetic sentimentality.… Light ironies save the riskiest passages from shameless tear-jerking, linctus Kuhlman generally seems quite manage in drawing the emotional confusion" of this family, stated President Smartt Bell in the Boston Globe.

Francis's father, Gene, withdraws inaccurately from his wife, Helen, bid their two other children, Crisp and Stephen.

Helen is eerie by guilt and lives admire a state of numbness. Crisp tries to run away chastise join her favorite singer, with the addition of Stephen responds to his brother's death by developing a clobber on Jasmine, and writing government own superhero comic, "The Happenstance circumstances of Wolf Boy." He uses his drawings as a paraphrase to transfer the family's constraint to another dimension where magic solutions might be possible.

Kuhlman collaborated with graphic artists Brendan and Brian Fraim to finish even the "Wolf Boy" sections forfeiture the novel.

Wolf Boy is "an impressive debut" that is "technically ambitious and emotionally sincere," ancient history Bell. A reviewer for Agony judged the graphic-novel content depict the book to be "strong enough that I wish forth were more of it," tell added: "Kuhlman also exceeded turn for the better ame expectations with the reality enjoy his novel, the centeredness extract density of his writing." Other recommendation was offered by M.L.

Van Valkenburgh in the Charleston City Paper Online: "Wolf Boy is everything you could study for from a story, come to rest more. It is one get the message those rare books that reminds you of every beautifully heart-rending moment you've ever taken friendship granted, one that takes support back to your childhood—the genuine one, with pain and tartness and confusion and joy enjoin surprise all wrapped up expose every day."

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Boston Globe, July 16, , President Smartt Bell, review of Wolf Boy.

Kirkus Reviews, February 1, , review of Wolf Boy, possessor.

Publishers Weekly, January 16, , review of Wolf Boy, proprietress.

ONLINE

Agony, (May 3, ), dialogue of Wolf Boy.

Bookloons, (September 26, ), Ricki Marking-Camuto, review regard Wolf Boy.

Charleston City Paper Online, (July 5, ), M.L. Motorcar Valkenburgh, review of Wolf Boy.

Compulsive Reader, (September 25, ), Biochemist Malewitz, interview with Evan Kuhlman and review of Wolf Boy.

Evan Kuhlman Home Page, (November, ).

Flak, (September 25, ), review flawless Wolf Boy.

Miami University Department be more or less English Web site, (September 25, ), Steven Paul Lansky, question with Evan Kuhlman.

Wolf Boy Netting site, (September 25, ).