Benjamin Pressley Walker
Author | Jacksonville, FL |
Website
Ben Walker is the author of Sentimental Music, a novel set in contemporary Florida, and Winds of the South, set in 1830’s Georgia. A sequel to Winds, entitled An Island in the South, was published in 2012 and takes place during Reconstruction in South Carolina.
Also a talented playwright, Mr. Walker wrote, pr.... more
Ben Walker is the author of Sentimental Music, a novel set in contemporary Florida, and Winds of the South, set in 1830’s Georgia. A sequel to Winds, entitled An Island in the South, was published in 2012 and takes place during Reconstruction in South Carolina.
Also a talented playwright, Mr. Walker wrote, produced and directed The King’s Dice, an absurdist musing on the last days of Alexander the Great; and Blood Relations, a black comedy of race, sex, and dashed dreams that was a winner of the 1997 South Carolina Playwrights’ Conference Competition in Beaufort, SC.
Mr. Walker is a graduate of the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, as well as San Francisco State University, where he received an M.A. degree in creative writing. He currently lives and writes in Jacksonville, Florida.