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"Barnstorming Ohio" author David Giffels has written six books of nonfiction, including the critically acclaimed memoir, "Furnishing Eternity: A Father, a Son, a Coffin, and a Measure of Life," published by Scribner in 2018. The book has been hailed by the New York Times Book Review as “tender, witty and ... painstakingly and subtly wrought,” and by Kirkus Reviews as “a heartfelt memoir about the connection between a father and son.” It was a Book of the Month pick by Amazon and Powell’s and a New York Times Book Review “Editors’ Choice.”

His previous books include "The Hard Way on Purpose: Essays and Dispatches From the Rust Belt" , a New York Times Book Review “Editors’ Choice” and nominee for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay, and the national-bestselling memoir "All the Way Home" , winner of the Ohioana Book Award.

Giffels is the coauthor, with Jade Dellinger, of the rock biography "Are We Not Men? We Are Devo!" and, with Steve Love, "Wheels of Fortune: The Story of Rubber in Akron."

A former Akron Beacon Journal columnist, his writing has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, the Atlantic.com, Parade, The Wall Street Journal, Esquire.com, Grantland.com, The Iowa Review, and many other publications. He also wrote for the MTV series "Beavis and Butt-Head."

His awards include the Cleveland Arts Prize for literature, the Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award, and a General Excellence award from National Society of Newspaper Columnists. He was selected as the Cuyahoga County Public Library Writer in Residence for 2018-2019.

Giffels is a professor of English at the University of Akron, where he teaches creative nonfiction in the Northeast Ohio Master of Fine Arts Program.

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David Giffels

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Books from David Giffels

The Hard Way on Purpose: Essays and Dispatches from the Rust Belt

Furnishing Eternity: A Father, a Son, a Coffin, and a Measure of Life

Barnstorming Ohio: To Understand America

Are We Not Men? We Are Devo!

We Are Devo!

The Akron Anthology

All the Way Home

All the Way Home: Building a Family in a Falling-Down House

Wheels of Fortune: The Story of Rubber in Akron

Wheels of Fortune: The Story of Rubber in Akron

Furnishing Eternity Lib/E: A Father, a Son, a Coffin, and a Measure of Life

The Beginning Was the End: Devo in Ohio (Ohio History and Culture)

The New Heartland: Looking for the American Dream