Edward Falco

Edward Falco is an American author. Toughs, his most recent novel, follows the lives of fictional characters and their relationship to the notorious criminal Vince "Mad Dog" Coll, as well as Lucky Luciano, Ownen Madden, Dutch Shultz, and other gangland figures. The Family Corleone, his previous novel, is based on a screenplay by Mario Puzo and was published by Grand Central Publishing in 2012. Other novels include Saint John of the Five Boroughs, and Wolf Point, both published by Unbridled Books. His short story collection Sabbath Night in the Church of the Piranha: New and Selected Stories was also published by Unbridled. Falco's In the Park of Culture, a collection of short fictions, was published by the University of Notre Dame Press.

In addition to the works mentioned above, Falco's earlier books include the novel Winter in Florida (Soho, 1990), the hypertext novel A Dream with Demons (Eastgate Systems, 1997), the hypertext poetry collection Sea Island (Eastgate Systems, 1995), and a chapbook of prose poem, Concert in the Park of Culture (Tamarack, 1985), as well as two collections of short stories: Acid (Notre Dame, 1996) and Plato at Scratch Daniel's & Other Stories (University of Arkansas Press, 1990).

Acid won the 1995 Richard Sullivan Prize from the University of Notre Dame and was a finalist for The Patterson Prize. He has won a number of other prizes and awards for his fiction, including the Robert Penn Warren Prize from The Southern Review, the Emily Clark Balch Prize for Short Fiction from The Virginia Quarterly Review, The Mishima Prize for Innovative Fiction from The Saint Andrews Review, a Dakin Fellowship from the Sewanee Writers' Conference, two Individual Artist's Fellowships from the Virginia Commission for the Arts, and The Governor's Award for the Screenplay from The Virginia Festival of American Film.

His stories have been published widely in journals, including The Atlantic Monthly, Playboy, and TriQuarterly, and collected in the Best American Short Stories, the Pushcart Prize, and several anthologies, including, Blue Cathedral: Short Fiction for the New Millennium. An early innovator in the field of digital writing, Falco's literary and experimental hypertexts are taught in universities internationally. His online work includes Self-Portrait as Child w/Father (Iowa Review Web), Circa 1967–1968 (Eastgate Reading Room), and "Charmin' Cleary" (Eastgate Reading Room). Falco's work also appears in the online journal Blackbird.

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