The legendary signature prose of Richard Currey enters a new era with the planned 20th Anniversary release of the acclaimed international bestseller Fatal Light from the Santa Fe Writers Project soon! In 2005, an author's edition of Currey's Lost Highway was released by West Virginia University Press, featuring a forward by James Lee Burke.

"When Richard Currey writes fiction, he speaks the truth. The poetry of his language, his wisdom, his compassion, sets us free. His journeys into the human heart are tiny miracles ... and when we finish Lost Highway we do so with a mysterious sense of revelation. The final chapters of this novel stir the heart and mind in ways only the best fiction can achieve."

—Dallas Morning News

Born in the small town of Parkersburg, West Virginia, Currey is the author of Crossing Over: The Vietnam Stories, Fatal Light, The Wars of Heaven, and Lost Highway. A writer of exceptional range and versatility, Currey has published short fiction, poetry, essays, and investigative journalism. His fiction has been adapted for theatre, most recently in a new staging of Crossing Over: The Vietnam Stories now in workshop productions. The recipient of many awards, prizes, and fellowships, Currey's books have appeared in 11 languages, receiving critical comparisons to Joseph Conrad, Faulkner, Hemingway, Steinbeck, and Kerouac along the way.

"A writer’s writer, a poignant genius. I sincerely urge you to read Richard Currey—it is the simplest way to understand why those of us who love his work feel the way we do."

—Robert Aubry Davis, XM Radio