
Wayne Caldwell is a native of Asheville, North Carolina. He began writing fiction when he turned fifty. Winner of two short story prizes, the 2010 Thomas Wolfe Memorial Literary Award from the Western North Carolina Historical Association, and the 2013 James Still Award from the Fellowship of Southern Writers, he is the author of two novels---***Cataloochee*** (2007) and ***Requiem by Fire*** (2010), both published by Random House. He also contributed to ***Naked Came the Leaf Peeper*** (Burning Bush Press, 2011), a collaborative novel by a dozen North Carolina writers. A short story, ***Rattlesnakes***, was published in ***27 Views of Asheville*** (Eno Publishers, 2012).

Issues and responses
1999
ISBN 9780797420168
Rural community economic development
2013
ISBN 9781926843056
Origin of Snakes
2019
ISBN 9781032177694
Woodsmoke
2021
ISBN 9781949467390
River Road
2024
ISBN 9781958888353
Naked Came the Leaf Peeper
2011

The agricultural fair
1935
ISBN 9780404046699
The Urbanite's Guide to the Countryside - Southern Ontario Edition
2006
ISBN 9780978129804
Cataloochee
2007
ISBN 9781400063437
Requiem by Fire
2010
ISBN 9781588369727
The Theory of Everything
2019
ISBN 9780578522104