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Roy Hoffman is Writer-in-Residence for the Mobile Register and author of Chicken Dreaming Corn and the Lillian Smith Award-winning Almost Family.

Hoffman's work transcends region while celebrating it. He writes about what makes Mobile and its inhabitants... a rarity. Belonging on the same shelf as Rick Bragg's Somebody Told Me and Larry McMurtry's Roads, this is recommended for all libraries. - Library Journal ""Hoffman sees Mobile with the wisdom of one who has lived, learned, and worked elsewhere but finds that his home is, after all, a special place of warmth and humanity, a place where the human dimension defines the scale of things, where time does not stand still but is not forgotten, a place for people. Read this book and take a journey with a master storyteller and student of human nature."" - Alabania Review ""These stories were written to explore what Hoffman calls a sense of place and they eloquently answer the question upon his return: What's left to tell me where I am?"" - Publishers Weekly ""In an age of chain newspapers and nomadic reporters who learn new cities every 18 months, Back Home is a wonderful throwback to the heyday of newsroom giants like Chicago's Mike Royko and New York's Jimmy Breslin, who seemed to know every block of the city and everyone who lived there.... Eloquent, affectionate, often profound, this is a connoisseur's collection that shows why the best newspaper writing deserves a far better fate than landfills."" - Hal Crowther, author of Cathedrals of Kudzu