Charles Frazier

Charles Frazier is an American novelist, born in 1950, whose best-known book is Cold Mountain, which won the 1997 National Book Award for Fiction. That Civil War story follows a wounded soldier's long walk home toward the woman he loves, while she struggles to keep her father's farm. Frazier's other novel, Thirteen Moons, mixes literary fiction with historical and coming-of-age threads.