Dennis Covington

SALVATION ON SAND MOUNTAIN

Pub: Penguin 1996
Genre: NBA non-fiction nominee 1995.
Description: Covington relates his personal investigation of a fundamentalist snake-handling congregation in the Deep South. Film option to Peter Mac Nichol. Dateline has produced a documentary based on the book.

LASSO THE MOON
Pub: Delacorte 1995
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
Description: An adolescent girl is increasingly intrigued by a young man, an El Salvordorean immigrant whose life story changes her perception of the world around her.

Covington won the Delacorte Press Prize for a First Young Adult Novel for LIZARD, which has recently been turned into a musical play.

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