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Chris Offutt was born on 24 August 1958 in Lexington, Kentucky. When he was a child, he lived near a mining community called Haldeman (located in Rowan Country in the Appalachian Mountains), although this community doesn't exist anymore.
The author has three siblings, one brother and two sisters. All of them attended public schools. When he finished high school, he tried to join the army. Unfortunately, he didn't pass the physical test. For this reason, he enrolled in a theatre degree at Morehead University. After getting his degree, he travelled by hitchhiking around EEUU and working in 50 different jobs.
Moreover, he attended an Iowa writer's workshop. His first narrative work was Kentucky Straight in 1992, followed by some other successful books, such as out of the woods (short stories, 1997), no heroes (memoir, 2002) and My father, the pornographer (2016).
Chris Offutt writes non-fiction articles in The New York Times and Men's journal. Apart from that, he writes scripts for TV series true blood, Treme or Blood and Weeds, among others.
He has been honoured in the Best American Short Stories and Essays and the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
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