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

New Hampshire

New Hampshire is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. The state was named after the southern English county of Hampshire. It is bordered by Massachusetts to the south, Vermont to the west, Maine and the Atlantic Ocean to the east, and the Canadian...

 town as it transitions from relative rural poverty to being more upscale, almost suburban.

Hebert was born in Keene, New Hampshire

Keene, New Hampshire

Keene is a city in Cheshire County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 23,409 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Cheshire County.Keene is home to Keene State College and Antioch University New England, and hosts the annual Pumpkin Fest...

. He is a Professor of English and Creative Writing at Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College is a private, Ivy League university in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States. The institution comprises a liberal arts college, Dartmouth Medical School, Thayer School of Engineering, and the Tuck School of Business, as well as 19 graduate programs in the arts and sciences...

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Works

• New Hampshire Patterns, with Jon Gilbert Fox, photographer (University Press of New England
  University Press of New England
  The University Press of New England , located in Lebanon, New Hampshire and founded in 1970, is a university press consortium including Brandeis University, Dartmouth College , the University of New Hampshire, and Northeastern University...
  
  ) 2007
• Spoonwood (UPNE) 2005 (Won an IPPY, best regional novel in the Northeast for 2005)
• The Old American (UPNE) 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
    Viking Press
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    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)

External links

• Hebert's page at Dartmouth