Writer, Professor, Former Rock Musician
Biography
Jim Booth is a fiction writer with over 30 published stories in journals ranging from StorySouth to Dead Mule to Pig Iron Malt to Dew on the Kudzu and the author of The New Southern Gentleman (Wexford College Press, 2002) and Morte D'Eden, or Tom Sawyer Meets the Rolling Stones (Beach House Books, 2003). Jim is fiction editor for Scholars and Rogues Literary Magazine, the literary arm of the national blog Scholars and Rogues. A former touring rock musician, Jim currently operates his own independent record label, Goat Boy Records, and his sons Joshua and Trevor lead the rock group DoCo, currently on tour. Jim’s wife Carolyn Lea Booth is an artist and poet whose work shows regularly in galleries in North Carolina and the Southeast.
Inspiration
Influenced by Twain, Hemingway, Vonnegut, Brautigan, Lennon, McCartney, Dylan, many more...not least of which is Jane Austen...
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