Wilton Barnhardt

Wilton BarnhardtN.C. State’s Wilton Barnhardt is a former reporter for Sports Illustrated and the author of three novels: EMMA WHO SAVED MY LIFE; GOSPEL; and SHOW WORLD. A graduate of Michigan State University, he was a graduate student at the University of Oxford. He teaches fiction writing to undergraduate and graduate students at N.C. State, and is co-director (with John Kessel) of the Masters of Fine Arts program in Creative Writing. 

Emma Who Saved My Life (Paperback)

By Wilton Barnhardt
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ISBN-13: 9780312191184
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Published: Picador, 6/1998
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Wilton Barnhardt's novel of coming of age in New York City brims with energy, surprise, irresistible humor, and the heady rush of youth. Its hero, Gil Freeman, a mid-western aspiring actor, comes to the city in search of stradom--but instead encounters the perils of Alphabet City, the desperation of off-off-off Broadway theater...and the exhilarating, exasperating, absolutely unique Emma, around whom his life comes to turn. Charming and engaging, quintessentially American, EMMA WHO SAVED MY LIFE is one of the extraordinary fiction debuts of our time.

Gospel (Paperback)

By Wilton Barnhardt
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ISBN-13: 9780312119249
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Published: Picador, 2/1995
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GOSPEL concerns the search for a lost first-century gospel of the Bible, a document that could shake the foundations of Christianity. Wilton Barnhardt's narrative races through three continents, nine countries, and dozens of colorful locales, as two character--shy theological student Lucy Dantan and hard-drinking, disillusioned ex-Jesuit Patrick O'Hanrahan--pursue rumors and clues about the gospel's whereabouts and contents. In the end, what they discover will challenge and forever change the nature of faith.
An intellectual detective story with the erudition of Umberto Eco and the grand swirling entertainment of a nineteenth-century novel, GOSPEL is exciting, profound, reverent, and terrifically funny.