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Wiley Cash

Biography

Wiley Cash

Wiley Cash is the New York Times bestselling author of A LAND MORE KIND THAN HOME, the acclaimed THIS DARK ROAD TO MERCY, THE LAST BALLAD and, most recently, WHEN GHOSTS COME HOME. He won the SIBA Book Award and the Conroy Legacy Award, was a finalist for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize and the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Novel, and has been nominated for many more. A native of North Carolina, he is the Alumni Author-in-Residence at the University of North Carolina Asheville. He lives in Wilmington, NC with his wife, photographer Mallory Cash, and their two daughters.

Books by Wiley Cash

by Wiley Cash - Fiction, Historical Fiction

North Carolina, 1929. Ella May Wiggins, a sidelined cotton millworker, joins forces with union organizers, using her beautiful voice and talent for writing rousing lyrics to help the labor movement. THE LAST BALLAD is based on a true story.

by Wiley Cash - Fiction

The critically acclaimed author of the New York Times bestseller A LAND MORE KIND THAN HOME returns with THIS DARK ROAD TO MERCY, a resonant novel of love and atonement, blood and vengeance, set in western North Carolina, involving two young sisters, a wayward father and an enemy determined to see him pay for his sins.