{"product_id":"prime-time","title":"Prime Time","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; mso-hyphenate: auto;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWilliam Heath\u003c\/strong\u003e was born in Youngstown, OH. A graduate of Hiram College, with a Ph.D. in American Studies from Case Western Reserve, he taught American literature and creative writing at Kenyon, Transylvania, Vassar, and the University of Seville as the Fulbright professor of American literature. Since 1981, he taught at Mount Saint Mary’s University, where\u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ehe edited \u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003eThe Monocacy Valley Review\u003c\/i\u003e. He retired as a professor emeritus in 2007. The William Heath Award is given annually to honor a student writer. In 2008–9, he was the Sophia M. Libman Professor of Humanities at Hood College. In 2022, he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from Hiram.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; mso-hyphenate: auto;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;\"\u003eHe authored many award-winning prose books, including \u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003eThe Children Bob Moses Led \u003c\/i\u003e(Milkweed Editions, 1995; paperback, 1997), which is about the civil rights movement in Mississippi, and \u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003eDevil Dancer \u003c\/i\u003e(Somondoco Press, 2013) a neo-noir crime novel. His work was nominated for the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize. His book reviews and essays on Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, William Styron, Thomas Berger, Robert Stone, and Frank Bergon, among others, appear in newspapers, scholarly journals, literary magazines, reviews, and anthologies.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; mso-hyphenate: auto;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;\"\u003eHe began publishing poetry in the sixties. His recent collections include \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/kelsaybooks.com\/products\/steel-valley-elegy?_pos=2\u0026amp;_sid=e18bd96bb\u0026amp;_ss=r\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003eSteel Valley Elegy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e (Kelsay Books, 2022), \u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/kelsaybooks.com\/products\/going-places?_pos=3\u0026amp;_sid=e18bd96bb\u0026amp;_ss=r\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eGoing Places\u003c\/a\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e(Kelsay Books, 2023),\u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/kelsaybooks.com\/products\/alms-for-oblivion?_pos=1\u0026amp;_sid=e18bd96bb\u0026amp;_ss=r\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eAlms for Oblivion\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e (Kelsay Books, 2024), and \u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003eInventing the Americas\u003c\/i\u003e (Finishing Line Press, 2024). He and his wife, Roser Caminals-Heath—author of ten novels in Catalan—live in Maryland.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(31, 33, 36);\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;\"\u003eWebsite:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(31, 33, 36);\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.williamheathbooks.com\" rel=\"noopener\" style=\"color: rgb(31, 33, 36);\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: none;\"\u003ewww.williamheathbooks.com\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; mso-hyphenate: auto;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;\"\u003ePaperback: 144 pages\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Kelsay Books (March 6, 2026)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kelsay Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53076455555256,"sku":null,"price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0013\/0800\/0329\/files\/heath2_front.jpg?v=1774027807","url":"https:\/\/kelsaybooks.com\/products\/prime-time","provider":"Kelsay Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}