Mark Childress

Mark Childress (born 1957, Monroeville, Alabama) is an American novelist and southern writer.

Childress grew up in Ohio, Indiana, Mississippi, and Louisiana. He graduated from the University of Alabama, where he was a member of the Mallet Assembly. In 1978 Childress was a reporter for The Birmingham News, Features Editor of Southern Living magazine, and Regional Editor of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

He was formerly a resident of Dallas and New York, and lives in Key West, Florida as of 2011^[update].

Articles and reviews by Childress have appeared in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Times, San Francisco Chronicle, the Saturday Review, the Chicago Tribune, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Travel and Leisure, and other national and international publications.

He has also written three picture books for children: Joshua and Bigtooth,Joshua and the Big Bad Blue Crabs, and Henry Bobbity Is Missing And It Is All Billy Bobbity's Fault.

Childress wrote the screenplay for the film Crazy in Alabama.

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