Les Edgerton (1943-31 August 2023)[1] was an American author of twenty-three books, including two about writing fiction: Finding Your Voice (Writer's Digest Books) and Hooked (Writer's Digest Books). Several of his books have been translated into Japanese, German and Italian. He also wrote short stories, articles, essays, novels, and screenplays. [2][3][4]
Edgerton's fiction has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, O. Henry Award, Edgar Allan Poe Award (short story category), Jesse Jones Award, PEN/Faulkner Award, Derringer Award and the Violet Crown Book Award. One of his screenplays was a semifinalist for the Don and Gee Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting Program, a finalist in the Austin Film Festival Heart of Film Screenplay Competition, and a finalist in the Writer's Guild's "Best American Screenplays" Competition. His short fiction has appeared in Houghton Mifflin's Best American Mysteries of 2001, The South Carolina Review, Kansas Quarterly, Arkansas Review, North Atlantic Review, Chiron Review, and many others.