Into the Forbidden Zone (10 page)

The author getting radiation screening in Koriyama following his second visit to the hot zone.

William T. Vollmann
is the author of nine novels, including
Europe Central
, winner of the National Book Award. He has also written three collections of stories, a memoir, and five works of nonfiction, including, most recently,
Imperial
and
Kissing the Mask: Beauty, Understatement, and Femininity in Japanese Noh Theater
. His epic treatise on violence,
Rising Up and Rising Down
, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. He is the recipient of the Whiting Writers Award, the PEN Center USA West Award, and the Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

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