Daniel Wallace
"Author, Artist, Alligator Wrangler"
Click here to watch a short video by author Daniel Wallace about Gadsden's Big Fish

If you Google Daniel Wallace, author of Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions, you'll likely find this eclectic description - a fitting title indicative of Wallace's whymsical, imaginative storytelling. Even the writer's website (www.danielwallace.org) is illustrated by Wallace himself, including such conversational and witty musings that you may find yourself wishing he was your fishing buddy.

Perhaps this explains why Wallace's fiction is so popular. He's literary without being stuffy or difficult - a style that is all at once literary and popular. Despite its literary tone, his prose is easy and approachable. Wallace's narratives are delivered with a tone that is more akin to someone sitting on the back porch by the banks of the river, tying together stories as a fisherman would lures.

Daniel Wallace, master craftsman of words, will be in Gadsden March 14th & 15th as our writer in residence for the One Book, One Communtiy - Gadsden Reads project. His book Big Fish has been the focus of the year-long project.

	Title: It Happens Like This Materials: acrylic and water based paints on fiberglass Artist’s comments: I really like outsider art. Alabama is home to many of the most wonderful outsider artists painting today. With my fish, I wanted to tell a story, or stories, in that style.