Paul Russell is the author of several acclaimed novels including The Salt Point, War Against the Animals and the Ferro-Grumley Award winners The Coming Storm and The Unreal Life of Sergey Nabokov.  Translated into ten languages, his work has been praised in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe and The Wall Street Journal.  He lives in New York’s Hudson Valley.

"Fearless in probing the psyche of a closeted white evangelical - and the ways in which self-loathing can be weaponized against others - Paul Russell has written a book that does not shy away from the darkest hypocrisies of both religious institutions and our current political moment. In prose that is lush and unflinching, it explores the entanglement of desire and shame, power and cruelty, biblical landscapes and the American South. It takes bravery to see this story through, in all of its clear-eyed complexity. The Angels Who Came to Sodom will stay with me. —Chloe Benjamin, author of The New York Times bestselling The Immortalists.Praise for Paul Russell's novels:“The Coming Storm takes off from a sensational subject to arrive at unexpected heights and subtleties. It’s both unsettling and touching… well-nigh flawless.” —The Washington Post“If Tennessee Williams were young today and a Yankee, The Salt Point is the novel he might have written. It finds the sacred and poetic even in the slag heap of small-town America.” — Edmund WhiteBoys of Life is simply great writing — risky, honest, horrifying and insightful…. A forthright vision of love’s darkest possibilities.” — Dorothy Allison

Paul Russell is the author of several acclaimed novels including The Salt Point, War Against the Animals and the Ferro-Grumley Award winners The Coming Storm and The Unreal Life of Sergey Nabokov.  Translated into ten languages, his work has been praised in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe and The Wall Street Journal.  He lives in New York’s Hudson Valley.

"Fearless in probing the psyche of a closeted white evangelical - and the ways in which self-loathing can be weaponized against others - Paul Russell has written a book that does not shy away from the darkest hypocrisies of both religious institutions and our current political moment. In prose that is lush and unflinching, it explores the entanglement of desire and shame, power and cruelty, biblical landscapes and the American South. It takes bravery to see this story through, in all of its clear-eyed complexity. The Angels Who Came to Sodom will stay with me. —Chloe Benjamin, author of The New York Times bestselling The Immortalists.Praise for Paul Russell's novels:“The Coming Storm takes off from a sensational subject to arrive at unexpected heights and subtleties. It’s both unsettling and touching… well-nigh flawless.” —The Washington Post“If Tennessee Williams were young today and a Yankee, The Salt Point is the novel he might have written. It finds the sacred and poetic even in the slag heap of small-town America.” — Edmund WhiteBoys of Life is simply great writing — risky, honest, horrifying and insightful…. A forthright vision of love’s darkest possibilities.” — Dorothy Allison

Paul Russell is the author of several acclaimed novels including The Salt Point, War Against the Animals and the Ferro-Grumley Award winners The Coming Storm and The Unreal Life of Sergey Nabokov.  Translated into ten languages, his work has been praised in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe and The Wall Street Journal.  He lives in New York’s Hudson Valley.

"Fearless in probing the psyche of a closeted white evangelical - and the ways in which self-loathing can be weaponized against others - Paul Russell has written a book that does not shy away from the darkest hypocrisies of both religious institutions and our current political moment. In prose that is lush and unflinching, it explores the entanglement of desire and shame, power and cruelty, biblical landscapes and the American South. It takes bravery to see this story through, in all of its clear-eyed complexity. The Angels Who Came to Sodom will stay with me. —Chloe Benjamin, author of The New York Times bestselling The Immortalists.Praise for Paul Russell's novels:“The Coming Storm takes off from a sensational subject to arrive at unexpected heights and subtleties. It’s both unsettling and touching… well-nigh flawless.” —The Washington Post“If Tennessee Williams were young today and a Yankee, The Salt Point is the novel he might have written. It finds the sacred and poetic even in the slag heap of small-town America.” — Edmund WhiteBoys of Life is simply great writing — risky, honest, horrifying and insightful…. A forthright vision of love’s darkest possibilities.” — Dorothy Allison