Waking Up in a Cornfield: Selected Columns

This book is a selection of columns Cox has written for both the Asheville Citizen-Times and the Waynesville Enterprise-Mountaineer.

Cox, who has been writing a weekly column for more than five years, has won several press awards, both on the state and national levels. He has been honored for both serious and humorous writing, and Waking up in a Cornfield reflects this range.

Recently, Cox's writing received national exposure when one of the essays in this collection was published in the March 1999 issue of the Reader's Digest.

Previously, one of Cox's columns was lauded by nationally syndicated columnist, James J. Kilpatrick, author of the Writer's Art. Kilpatrick, who is perhaps the most highly regarded authority on good newspaper writing in the country, said of Cox's essay, "Now and then a piece of writing comes over the transom that is so nearly perfect in its way that I read it with a sigh of admiration mixed with envy." Kilpatrick provides one of the comments for the cover of Waking up in a Cornfield: "If Chris Cox were not a writer, he'd be a painter or a musician. He has a lovely sense of the music and color of words." END