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  1. Donald Ray Pollock (born December 23, 1954) [1] [2] is an American writer. He first published his collection of short stories, Knockemstiff, in 2008, based on his experiences growing up in Knockemstiff, Ohio. His debut novel, The Devil All the Time, was published in 2011 to critical acclaim.

  2. Novelist Donald Ray Pollock On Factory Work And Finding Fiction Later In Life. Pollock worked in a paper mill and meatpacking plant for 32 years before becoming a writer. Netflix's film...

  3. Books. The Heavenly Table. From Donald Ray Pollock, author of the highly acclaimed The Devil All the Time and Knockemstiff, comes a dark, gritty, electrifying (and, disturbingly, weirdly funny) new novel that will solidify his place among the best contemporary American authors.

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  5. Learn about the life and work of Donald Ray Pollock, an American writer born in Knockemstiff, Ohio. He is the author of Knockemstiff, The Devil All the Time, and The Heavenly Table.

  6. Jul 11, 2011 · Donald Ray Pollock has followed his 2008 short-story collection, “Knockemstiff,” with a novel, also set in the Ohio town of that redolent name.

  7. Donald Ray Pollock was born in 1954 and grew up in southern Ohio, in a holler named Knockemstiff. He dropped out of high school at seventeen to work in a meatpacking plant, and then spent thirty-two years employed in a paper mill in Chillicothe, Ohio.

  8. Jul 26, 2011 · Pollock's first book, published in 2008, was a critically acclaimed collection of 18 short stories set in Knockemstiff. The characters, who regularly brawled, drank to oblivion and...

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