Jason Mott
Jason Mott is an American novelist and poet. His 2021 novel "Hell of a Book" won the National Book Award for Fiction. Early life and education. Mott was born in Bolton, North Carolina. He attended Cape Fear Community College and graduated from the University of North Carolina Wilmington with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Fiction and a Master of Fine Arts in Poetry. Career. Mott's debut novel, "The Returned", was published in 2013. It centered on the return of dead people to the living world and their impact on the daily lives of the people around  them. The novel was adapted into the television series "Resurrection", which was produced by ABC Studios and aired in 2014 and 2015. Mott's fourth novel, "Hell of a Book", was published by Dutton on June 29, 2021. On November 17, 2021, the novel was awarded the 2021 National Book Award for Fiction. It was nominated for the 2021 Sir Walter Raleigh Prize for Fiction. It was also longlisted for the 2022 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, the 2022 Aspen Words Literary Prize, and the 2022 Joyce Carol Oates Prize.