Ernest Hebert is an American author. He is best known for the Darby series, five novels written between 1979 and 1990, about modern life in a fictional New Hampshire town as it transitions from relative rural poverty to being more upscale, almost suburban.

Hebert was born in Keene, New Hampshire. He is a Professor of English and Creative Writing at Dartmouth College. Nickname: Elm City Location in Cheshire County, New Hampshire Coordinates: Country United States State New Hampshire County Cheshire Settled 1736 Incorporated 1753 (town) Incorporated 1874 (city) Government  - Mayor Michael E.J. Blastos  - City Council Charles H. Redfern Angelo D. DiBernardo, Jr. ... Dartmouth College is a private, coeducational university located in Hanover, New Hampshire, in the United States. ...

Works

• Spoonwood (UPNE [University Press of New England]) 2005 (Won an IPPY, best regional novel in the Northeast for 2005)
• The Old American (University Press of New England) 2000 (Outstanding Fiction award, New Hampshire Writers Project)
• Mad Boys (UPNE) 1993 (Outstanding Fiction award, New Hampshire Writers Project)
• The Kinship (UPNE) 1993 (reprint of two novels from Darby series plus an essay)
• The Darby series:
  • Live Free or Die (Viking Press 1990) (reprinted by UPNE 1993)
  • The Passion of Estelle Jordan (Viking 1987)
  • Whisper My Name (Viking 1984)
  • A Little More Than Kin (Viking 1982)
  • The Dogs of March (Viking 1979) (Citation for excellence in a first novel, by Hemingway Foundation)

The University Press of New England (or UPNE), founded in 1970, is a university press that is supported by Brandeis University, Dartmouth College (where it is located), the University of New Hampshire, Northeastern University, Tufts University and the University of Vermont. ... Viking Press was founded on March 1, 1925, in New York City, by Harold K. Guinzburg and George S. Oppenheim. ...

External links

Hebert's page at Dartmouth