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Michael Kardos

Michael Kardos is an American crime fiction writer. He is the author of the novels Bluff (2018), Before He Finds Her (2015), and The Three-Day Affair (2012), an Esquire best book of the year, as well as the story collection One Last Good Time, which won the Mississippi Institute of Arts & Letters Award for fiction, and the textbook The Art and Craft of Fiction: A Writer’s Guide.

His short stories have appeared in One Story, The Southern Review, Crazyhorse, and many other magazines and anthologies and have won two Pushcart Prizes.

Michael grew up on the Jersey Shore, received a degree in music from Princeton University, and played the drums professionally for several years. He has an M.F.A. in fiction from The Ohio State University and a Ph.D. from the University of Missouri.

Michael Kardos co-directs the creative writing program at Mississippi State University. In 2019 he received the John Grisham Master Teacher award, the highest teaching honor.

Michael Kardos currently lives in Starkville.
years of life: 1970 present

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b2972969076has quoted2 years ago
From time to time, when it seemed appropriate, I have posted pertinent public documents about the case, notable media coverage, and my own musings (here, here, here, and here, and less articulately in perhaps a dozen other posts). If you are a new reader of this blog (unfortunate timing, if so), here is a brief summary:
On Sunday afternoon and evening of September 22, 1991, the

من وقت لآخر ، عندما بدا ذلك مناسبًا ، قمت بنشر وثائق عامة ذات صلة حول القضية ، والتغطية الإعلامية البارزة ، وتأملاتي الخاصة (هنا ، هنا ، هنا ، وهنا ، وبشكل أقل وضوحًا في ربما اثني عشر وظيفة أخرى). إذا كنت قارئًا جديدًا لهذه المدونة (توقيت مؤسف ، إذا كان الأمر كذلك )، فإليك ملخص موجز:
بعد ظهر الأحد ومساء 22 سبتمبر 1991 ،

b2972969076has quoted2 years ago
Some in the community hold on to the hope that after Allisons murder, the little girl was kidnapped by her father and spared. That maybe shes still alive somewhere. I understand why people would choose to believe that, preferring to avoid thinking the unthinkable. But Ive never believed in fantasies and refuse to start now. The man who just murdered his wife did not then motor out to sea to go stargazing with his young daughter before disappearing with her.

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