Books in Order: Explore the Complete Series by Robert Olen Butler

A Pulitzer Prize winner for A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain (1993), Robert Olen Butler has also received the F. Scott Fitzgerald Award for Outstanding Achievement in American Literature, the Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Foundation Award, and the Tu Do Chinh Kien Award, given by the Vietnam Veterans of America to honor his own wartime service. He lives in Florida with his wife, poet Kelly Lee Butler.

This guide covers a single, more compact entry point into his work: The Best Small Fictions 2015, a good place to sample his prose before tackling the award-winning novel that made his name.