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Hawthorne’s Rediscovery Series was launched with Richard Wiley’s novel Soldiers in Hiding.

20 Feb 2013|

Richard Wiley’s Pen/Faulkner Award winning Soldiers in Hiding launched the Hawthorne Books Rediscovery series. In his introduction to this book, Wole Soyinka said Soldiers in Hiding was, “the most seductive and compelling of his works so far.”


Richard Wiley is Hawthorne’s only writer who served in the Peace Corps. Below is a partial bio from his website:


After Peace Corps in Korea Wiley moved across the Sea of Japan to Tokyo, where he spent five years trying to excel at Japanese. He got himself a masters’ degree in Japanese history at Sophia University, met his wife, Virginia Arcenas and began to write in earnest. The Wileys returned to the United States (in Virginia’s case for the first time) to the University of Iowa and its Writers’ Workshop, and then back to Tacoma, where Pilar, and later Morgan, were born. In the 1980s the family, not yet having had their fill of foreign locales, moved to Nigeria (for three years) and then to Kenya (for two), where the novels Indigo and Ahmed’s Revenge were conceived. To date all of Wiley’s books, lauded here on this Web site, have been set outside of the continental United States.