Roy Blount (b. 1941)

Biography

Blount was raised in Decatur, Georgia, and attended Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, where he graduated in 1963. He worked as a newspaper reported in Georgia and Louisiana before taking a position as a staff writer and editor for Sports Illustrated. In 1982 he became an editor and contributor to the Atlantic Monthly.

Bibliography

Fiction

• First Hubby (1990)

Non-Fiction

• About Three Bricks Shy of a Load: A Highly Irregular Lowdown on the Year the Pittsburgh Steelers Were Super but Missed the Bowl (1974)
• Crackers (1977)
• One Fell Soup, or, I'm Just a Bug on the Windshield of Life (1982)
• What Men Don't Tell Women (1984)
• Not Exactly What I Had in Mind (1985)
• It Grows on You: A Hair-Raising Survey of Human Plumage (1986)
• Soupsongs (1987)
• Webster's Ark (1987)
• Now Where Were We? (1988)
• The Baseball Hall of Fame 50th Anniversary Book (contributor, 1988)
• About Three Bricks Shy—and the Load Filled Up: The Story of the Greatest Football Team Ever (1989)
• Camels Are Easy, Comedy's Hard (1991)
• Roy Blount's Book of Southern Humor (editor, 1994)
• If Only You Knew How Much I Smell You: True Portraits of Dogs (1998)
• Be Sweet: A Conditional Love Story (1998)
• Gladiators: 40 Years of Football (2000)
• I Am Puppy, Hear Me Yap: Ages of a Dog (2000)
• Am I Pig Enough for You Yet?: Voices of the Barnyard (2001)
• Robert E. Lee (2003)

Screenplays

• Nickel and Dime (with Garry Williams and Pen Densham, 1995)
• The Main Stream (PBS, 2002)

Sources and Links

• Homepage
• Self-Promotional Bio, in Third Person
• Blount bio at the Atlantic Monthly

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