Clyde Edgerton is author of the novels Raney, Walking Across Egypt, The Floatplane Notebooks, Killer Diller, In Memory of Junior, Redeye: A Western, Where Trouble Sleeps, and Lunch at the Piccadilly. Awards include fellowships from the Guggenheim and Lyndhurst Foundations, five Notable Books of the Year from the New York Times, and the 1997 North Carolina Award for Literature. Edgerton teaches creative writing at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. His recently published a memoir, Solo: My Adventures in the Air.