Welcome To The Official Site of Author David Joy
“[David Joy] is a man who sees his homeplace clearly and who writes like his hand was touched by God.” — The New York Times
A twelfth generation North Carolinian, David Joy grew up along the Catawba River, moved away at eighteen, and has spent the last 22 years 100 miles west in the mountains of Jackson County. Place-driven and deeply rooted to Appalachia, his work has been translated into six languages. In 2023, his debut novel was adapted to film starring Billy Bob Thornton and Robin Wright.
Joy is the author of five novels, including Those We Thought We Knew (winner of the 2023 Willie Morris Award and the 2023 Thomas Wolfe Prize), When These Mountains Burn (winner of the 2020 Dashiell Hammett Award), The Line That Held Us (winner of the 2018 Southern Book Prize), The Weight of This World, and Where All Light Tends to Go (Edgar finalist for Best First Novel). His stories and creative nonfiction have appeared in a number of publications, most recently Garden & Gun, The New York Times Magazine, and TIME. He is also the author of the memoir Growing Gills: A Fly Fisherman’s Journey and a coeditor of Gather at the River: Twenty-Five Authors on Fishing, a book which raises money for the CAST For Kids Foundation.
Joy lives in Tuckasegee, North Carolina with his dog Edie Munster.
Contact
- For literary rights, contact Julia Kenny at Dunow, Carlson & Lerner
- For film rights, contact Dana Spector at CAA
- For publicity, contact Nicole Biton at G.P. Putnam's Sons
- For all speaking inquiries, contact Authors Unbound
