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Physiology and psychology cover, between them, the field of vital phenomena; they deal with the facts of life at large, and in particular with the facts of human life.
Padgett Powell

Born: April 25, 1952 (age 73)
Bio: Padgett Powell is an American novelist in the Southern literary tradition. His debut novel, Edisto, was nominated for the American Book Award and was excerpted in The New Yorker.
Known for:
- The Interrogative Mood: A Novel? (2009)
- Edisto (1984)
- Cries for Help, Various: Stories (2015)
- You & Me: A Novel (2012)
- Mrs. Hollingsworth's Men (2000)