Mark Dunn is the author of Ella Minnow Pea, a winner of the Borders Original Voices Award, a finalist for the Book Sense Book of the Year, and a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers title. He has written twenty-five plays and is currently the playwright-in-residence with the New Jersey Repertory Company and Community Theatre League in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. Originally from Memphis, he now resides with his wife in Greenwich Village.
USA Today [H]umor and human sentiment quickly hook the reader into
taking up residence. A three-day weekend in Higby isn't long
enough.
Colleen Kelly Warren St. Louis Post-Dispatch Every single one of
[Dunn's] characters are just so darn likable, and the author's view
of humanity so essentially generous, that the reader is gradually
sucked into Higby....Welcome to Higby is good-hearted fun.
Leif Enger author of Peace Like a River Mark Dunn is a wry
eyewitness along the lines of James Wilcox or Larry McMurtry;
Welcome to Higby is as farcical as Modern Baptists, as winning as
Texasville. Impish and forgiving, here is a writer who observes the
commandment: Thou shalt love thy characters. And they pay him back
in buckets.
Pat MacEnulty, Sun-Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale, FL) Dunn's careful
imbedding of humor has an organic quality that turns the book into
a real page-turner, not so much to find out what happens but to see
what surprising gem you'll find on the next page.
Paula Friedman The Miami Herald Dunn uses human peculiarity in the
service of creating empathy, conjuring an atmosphere of wise
affection in the process. The small town of Higby, with its
accidents, fortuitous encounters, and zany coincidences, offers
life at its most ordinary and its most extraordinary.
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