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Kent Wascom

Biography

Kent Wascom

Kent Wascom spent his childhood in Louisiana and Pensacola, Florida, and received his MFA from Florida State University. In 2012, he won the Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival Prize for fiction, judged by Amy Hempel. Wascome lives just outside New Orleans in Covington, Louisiana.

Kent Wascom

Books by Kent Wascom

The Blood of Heaven
by Kent Wascom - Fiction, Historical Fiction

THE BLOOD OF HEAVEN is the story of Angel Woolsack, a preacher’s son, who flees the hardscrabble life of his itinerant father, falls in with a charismatic highwayman, then settles with his adopted brothers on the rough frontier of West Florida, where American settlers are carving their place out of lands held by the Spaniards and the French.