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Brad Watson

Biography

Brad Watson

Brad Watson teaches creative writing at the University of Wyoming, Laramie. His first collection, LAST DAYS OF THE DOG-MEN, won the Sue Kauffman Award for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts & Letters; his first novel, THE HEAVEN OF MERCURY, was a finalist for the National Book Award, and his ALIENS IN THE PRIME OF THEIR LIVES was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.

Brad Watson

Books by Brad Watson

Miss Jane
by Brad Watson - Fiction, Historical Fiction

Inspired by the true story of his own great-aunt, Brad Watson explores the life of Miss Jane Chisolm, born in rural, early-20th-century Mississippi with a genital birth defect that would stand in the way of the central “uses” for a woman in that time and place --- namely, sex and marriage. From the country doctor who adopts Jane to the hard tactile labor of farm life, from the highly erotic world of nature around her to the boy who loved but was forced to leave her, the world of Miss Jane Chisolm is anything but barren. Free to satisfy only herself, she mesmerizes those around her, exerting an unearthly fascination that lives beyond her still.