Frank Turner Hollon
- Writer
- Actor
Frank Turner Hollon was born on July 24th, 1963, in Huntsville,
Alabama. At age five he moved to Louisiana where he graduated from
Louisiana Tech University Magna Cum Laude in 1985 and then attended
Tulane Law School in New Orleans on full scholarship before graduating
in 1988. His first published novel, The Pains of April, was written in
longhand in New Orleans at age twenty-four and stayed in a box until
Hollon gathered the courage to send it out for publication twelve years
later. After the publication of The Pains of April in 1999, Hollon
wrote The God File which was selected as The Independent Publisher's
Book of the Year in 2002, seemingly securing Frank Turner Hollon a
following for his very serious literary novels. However, in 2003,
MacAdam/Cage Publishing Company released Hollon's comic novel, Life Is
A Strange Place, and it became clear the author was more interested in
the freedom to write about diverse subjects and themes than financial
success. The succeeding books have ranged from comic in nature, to
religious, a Children's book, legal and psychological mysteries, and
full circle back to literary with the publication of his ninth novel,
The Book of Neil, in 2012. Life Is A Strange Place was adapted for film
in 2010 with the release of Barry Munday starring Patrick Wilson, Judy
Greer, Cybill Shepherd, Billy Dee Williams, Malcolm McDowell, and Jean
Smart. The film based on Hollon's sixth novel, Blood and Circumstance,
is scheduled to begin filming in October, 2012. Creative Artists Agency
continues to represent Frank Turner Hollon's books. Frank Hollon lives
in Baldwin County, Alabama, with his wife and children and practices
law at Hoiles, Dasinger, Hollon, and Copeland in the small town of
Robertsdale, Alabama.