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Farmers and pragmatists, hardworking people who made their way west from Kentucky through Ohio and Indiana to settle at last in southern Illinois, ...

Lee Martin’s own distinctive voice has the qualities of his favorite setting: the commonplace and middle-class turned over with a searchlight of wa...

“When she refused me,” Charlie says at his trial. “Well, I had that gun. What else was I to do?” Lawrenceville, Illinois, 1952: Jean De Belle, th...

From Our House is the luminous and uniquely American memoir of Lee Martin, born into a farming family the same year his father unexpectedly lost bo...

Queenie Doyle ruled over south London gangland and her four daughters - Frankie, Mags, Sharon and Roxie - with an iron fist. When Queenie´s death b...

On a night no one will ever forget, Della Black and three of her seven children are killed in a horrific fire in their trailer. As the surviving ch...

Selected by Amy Bloom as the winner of the 1995 Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction

"Count your blessings," his mother told him, "Think of everything good in your life."Pulitzer Prize finalist Lee Martin has done it again. Building...

In August of 1844, a man named Leonard Reed takes violently ill at his home near Heathsville, Illinois, and four days later he is dead. The cause? ...