TN Writers | TN Stories (Southern Festival of Books): Kevin Wilson, "Run for the Hills"

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TN Writers | TN Stories (Southern Festival of Books): Kevin Wilson, "Run for the Hills"

Each year, the TN Writers | TN Stories: Author Talks at the State Museum series wraps up at the Southern Festival of Books. This year's selection is the latest novel by Nothing to See Here author and New York Times bestseller Kevin Wilson. An unexpected road trip across America brings a family together in Run for the Hills, a raucous and moving new novel from this bestselling author. 

This event is part of our TN Writers | TN Stories series. Readings and discussions take place in the Digital Learning Center at the Tennessee State Museum. All events include an opportunity to purchase books through the Museum store and get them signed by the author. If you show your Eventbrite ticket you will receive a 10% discount on your book purchase in the Museum Store.

About the Author

Kevin Wilson is the author of two collections, Tunneling to the Center of the Earth (Ecco/Harper Perennial, 2009), which received an Alex Award from the American Library Association and the Shirley Jackson Award, and Baby You're Gonna Be Mine (Ecco, 2018), and five novels, The Family Fang (Ecco, 2011), Perfect Little World (Ecco, 2017), Nothing to See Here (Ecco, 2019), a New York Times bestseller and a Read with Jenna book club selection, Now is Not the Time to Panic (Ecco, 2022) and Run for the Hills (Ecco, 2025). His fiction has appeared in PloughsharesSouthern ReviewOne StoryA Public Space, and elsewhere, and has appeared in Best American Short Stories 2020 and 2021, as well as The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories 2012. He has received fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, and the KHN Center for the Arts. He lives in Sewanee, Tennessee, with his wife, the poet Leigh Anne Couch, and his sons, Griff and Patch, where he is an Associate Professor in the English & Creative Writing Department at the University of the South.