馬剋．柴德裏斯 Mark Childress

1957年齣生於阿拉巴馬州濛洛威爾，1978年畢業於阿拉巴馬州立大學，畢業後在各大報擔任記者編輯，業餘從事寫作。

自1984年齣版第一部作品以來，屢獲文學大獎，如「湯瑪斯沃爾夫獎」、「阿拉巴馬大學文學傑齣貢獻獎」、「阿拉巴馬圖書館協會年度作傢」。

迄今已齣版七部小說作品，不但在全國各地掀起熱潮，並多次榮獲各大媒體「年度選書」。其中「Crazy in Alabama」一書更於1999年改編為電影「蹺傢老媽」，由「濛麵俠蘇洛」巨星安東尼奧班德拉斯執導，曾入圍當年的威尼斯影展

"There is nothing small about Childress's fine novel. It's big in all the ways that matter - big in daring, big in insight, and big-hearted. Really, really big-hearted." - New Orleans Times-Picayune

This exuberantly acclaimed novel by the author of the bestselling Crazy in Alabama tells an uproarious and moving story about family, best friends, first love, and surviving the scariest years of your life.

You need only one best friend, Daniel Musgrove figures, to make it through high school alive. After his family moves to Mississippi just before his junior year, Daniel finds fellow outsider Tim Cousins. The two become inseparable, sharing a fascination with ridicule, The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour, and Arnita Beecham, the most bewitching girl at Minor High. But soon things go terribly wrong. The friends commit a small crime that grows larger and larger, and threatens to engulf the whole town. Arnita, the first black prom queen in the history of the school, is injured and wakes up a different person. And Daniel, Tim, and their families are swept up in a shocking chain of events.

"Wise, riveting, hilarious, painful, gentle, and ferocious, One Mississippi is a wonderful read." -Anne Lamott

"A Tilt-a-Whirl that flings the reader from comedy to calamity. . . . Childress is a fabulist in the manner of John Irving." - Atlanta Journal-Constitution

"By turns rollicking and troubling, as provocative as it is droll, One Mississippi is about as easy to resist as a riptide. This critic's advice is to go with its powerful flow." - Raleigh News & Observer