
William T. Vollmann
Author · 30 books
William Tanner Vollmann is an American novelist, journalist, short story writer and essayist. He lives in Sacramento, California with his wife and daughter.
Series
Books

Kissing the Mask
Beauty, Understatement and Femininity in Japanese Noh Theater
2010

Rising Up and Rising Down
Some Thoughts on Violence, Freedom and Urgent Means
2003

The Ice-Shirt
1990

Fathers and Crows
1992

No Good Alternative
Volume Two of Carbon Ideologies
2018

The Rainbow Stories
1989

Butterfly Stories
1993

No Immediate Danger
Volume One of Carbon Ideologies
2018

The Best American Travel Writing 2012
2012

Europe Central
2005

Whores for Gloria
1991

Conjunctions #48, Faces of Desire
2007

Last Stories and Other Stories
2014

You Bright and Risen Angels
1987

The Dying Grass
A Novel of the Nez Perce War
2015

Thirteen Stories and Thirteen Epitaphs
1991

Argall
2001

Into the Forbidden Zone
A Trip Through Hell and High Water in Post-Earthquake Japan
2011

The Book of Dolores
2013

The Lucky Star
A Novel
2020

The Rifles
1994

The Royal Family
2000

Poor People
2007

The Atlas
1996

An Afghanistan Picture Show
Or, How I Saved the World
1992

Uncentering the Earth
Copernicus and The Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres
2006

Riding Toward Everywhere
2008

Imperial
2009

Expelled from Eden
A William T. Vollmann Reader
2004

Open All Night
1995