Roy Hoffman is author of the novels Almost Family, winner of the Lillian Smith Award, and Chicken Dreaming Corn, endorsed by Harper Lee. He is the author of two essay collections, Back Home: Journeys Through Mobile and Alabama Afternoons: Profiles and Conversations. His articles have appeared in the New York Times, Fortune, Southern Living, and the Mobile Press-Register, where he was a long-time staff writer. A graduate of Tulane, he received the 2008 Clarence Cason Award from the University of Alabama’s College of Communication and Information Sciences. He teaches for Spalding University’s brief-residency MFA in Writing Program.

Hoffman's generation-spanning novel of love, war, and hurricanes brings the Mississippi Gulf Coast vividly to life."" —Reader's DigestA novel of war, women, and weather, Roy Hoffman's Come Landfall is, above all, a book of passionate and permanent connecting. It will seize your heart and not let go. When the reader counts the cost, this idea is inevitable: aging and accident are adversary enough—surely humans today can find a better solution to differences than killing each other in wars."" — Sena Jeter Naslund, author of Ahab's Wife and The Fountain of St. James Court; or, Portrait of the Artist as an Old Woman“This powerful novel of love and loss is Roy Hoffman at his finest. First as a journalist, and now as a consummate writer of fiction, he has sketched the life of his native South in colors more vivid than black and white. Against the backdrop of three Americanwars, Hoffman writes of immigrants new to our shores, and wounds and memories that all of us share. The compelling characters of Come Landfall lead us—painfully, often bravely—through the haunted geography of the heart.” — Frye Gaillard, author of The Books That Mattered: A Reader’s Memoir and Alabama’s Civil Rights Trail: An Illustrated Guide to the Cradle of Freedom

Roy Hoffman is author of the novels Almost Family, winner of the Lillian Smith Award, and Chicken Dreaming Corn, endorsed by Harper Lee. He is the author of two essay collections, Back Home: Journeys Through Mobile and Alabama Afternoons: Profiles and Conversations. His articles have appeared in the New York Times, Fortune, Southern Living, and the Mobile Press-Register, where he was a long-time staff writer. A graduate of Tulane, he received the 2008 Clarence Cason Award from the University of Alabama’s College of Communication and Information Sciences. He teaches for Spalding University’s brief-residency MFA in Writing Program.

Hoffman's generation-spanning novel of love, war, and hurricanes brings the Mississippi Gulf Coast vividly to life."" —Reader's DigestA novel of war, women, and weather, Roy Hoffman's Come Landfall is, above all, a book of passionate and permanent connecting. It will seize your heart and not let go. When the reader counts the cost, this idea is inevitable: aging and accident are adversary enough—surely humans today can find a better solution to differences than killing each other in wars."" — Sena Jeter Naslund, author of Ahab's Wife and The Fountain of St. James Court; or, Portrait of the Artist as an Old Woman“This powerful novel of love and loss is Roy Hoffman at his finest. First as a journalist, and now as a consummate writer of fiction, he has sketched the life of his native South in colors more vivid than black and white. Against the backdrop of three Americanwars, Hoffman writes of immigrants new to our shores, and wounds and memories that all of us share. The compelling characters of Come Landfall lead us—painfully, often bravely—through the haunted geography of the heart.” — Frye Gaillard, author of The Books That Mattered: A Reader’s Memoir and Alabama’s Civil Rights Trail: An Illustrated Guide to the Cradle of Freedom