Ozarks

Why did you switch the setting from the Ozarks to Louisiana?

The Dickens of the Ozarks talks jazz, how his first book was published, and what he always carries with him.

Have you used your book money and movie royalties to build the biggest house in the Ozarks?

Woodrell and his wife, the novelist Katie Estill, live in the Ozarks, where we recently caught up with him.

Has your family been in the Ozarks as long as anyone can remember?

In the Ozarks he made his living by hunting and fishing, and for some years lived almost the life of a hermit.

He was a northern man, well educated, and had come to the Ozarks for his health, being threatened with consumption.

Even the conflict which had raged along the borders of Missouri and Kansas had only come as a faint echo among the Ozarks.

He was thought brave, for no man in the Ozarks dared to stand up against him in a fight, but at heart he was a coward.

He had stumbled on the secret route through the Ozarks through which recruits for the South passed.