Lee Durkee

Lee Durkee is the author of the novels Rides of the Midway (WW Norton) and The Last Taxi Driver (Tin House Books). His stories and essays have appeared in Harper’s Magazine, The Sun, The Best of the Oxford American, Zoetrope: All Story, Tin House, Mississippi Noir, and other places. In 2021 Scribner will publish his memoir Stalking Shakespeare, which chronicles his decades-long obsession with trying to find lost portraits of William Shakespeare and get them x-rayed. He lives in North Mississippi.