Red in Tooth and Claw — Paul West

The author of more than 50 books, Paul West has received the Literature Award from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters in 1985, a 1993 Lannan Prize for Fiction, and the Grand-Prix Halpèrine-Kaminsky Prize for the Best Foreign Book in 1993. He has also been named a Literary Lion by the New York Public Library and a Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government. The Tent of Orange Mist was runner-up for the 1996 National Book Circle Award in Fiction and the Nobel Prize for Literature. "West is an extraterrestrial, and while he flies over he sometimes looks down on us poor word-birds pecking at our corn." -William H. Gass "His is one of the most original talents in American fiction." -The New York Times Book Review "West is a master." -Washington Post Book World