Elizabeth Cox
Elizabeth Cox has published five novels, including A Question of Mercy, The Ragged Way People Fall Out of Love, and Night Talk. She has won the Lillian Smith Award, the Robert Penn Warren Award for Fiction and the North Carolina Fiction Award. She taught at Duke University for seventeen years. She also taught at Boston University, MIT, and Bennington Graduate Program. She is now retired and working on a book of essays.
Reading List
Oranges
I. Just before going on stage, Benny released the lock on his wheelchair and tucked an orange into his jacket pocket. He could feel it there, its weight. He had brought it to eat at lunch, but now tried …