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Robert Olmstead
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Robert Olmstead

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Robert Olmstead Biography

Robert Olmstead is the author of six previous books. Coal Black Horse was the winner of the Heartland Prize for Fiction and the Ohioana Award, was a #1 Book Sense Pick, and was a Borders Original Voices pick. Olmstead is the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship and an NEA grant, and he is a professor at Ohio Wesleyan University.



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Savage Country jacket The Coldest Night jacket Far Bright Star jacket Coal Black Horse jacket
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