Inman Majors grew up in Knoxville, Tennessee and now makes his home in Charlottesville, Virginia. He is a professor of English at James Madison University.
OPERATION DIMWIT (a Penelope Lemon novel)
"This sequel has all the fun of its successor, focused on the loyal and unwavering friendship between two unstoppable southern women."—Booklist
"Penelope's perils make wonderfully absurd reading. . . . clever, amusing, and mildly addictive."—Alabama Public Radio
PENELOPE LEMON: GAME ON!
" Penelope’s adventures in online Christian dating and parenting are hilarious." —New York Post
"A laugh-out-loud funny tale... Majors' latest is a riot from beginning to end." —Booklist
"Don't plan on getting anything done once you pick up the funniest book of 2018."—CharlotteLit
"A light and lively sendup of modern woes."—Kirkus Review
“Saucy and profane and funny on every page”—Nashville Scene
“Majors’ mixture of “sinners and saints” in his make-believe town of Hillsboro is a laugh-out-loud read."—Memphis Commercial Appeal
"Seriously racy and laugh out loud funny."—StyleBlueprint
"Penelope Lemon is a high-spirited character who will keep you laughing."—Read It Forward (Best August books selection)
“(Majors) willingness to put his characters through rough patches, that are both absurd and hilarious, makes the book a diverting page-turner.”—Memphis Flyer
“If Penelope Lemon wasn’t taken, I’d be dating her myself. As hilarious as she is tough, Penelope is a heroine you can’t help rooting for. She also happens to be a fiercely loving mom with a giant heart. Once again, Inman Majors delivers a wildly entertaining Southern tale that’s funny, smart, poignant, and deliciously subversive.” —Michelle Richmond, author of The Marriage Pact
“In PENELOPE LEMON, Inman Majors captures a subversive, outrageously funny middle America. It’s like Bridget Jones’s Diary, but with a hilarious, small-town, rocker mother as its lead. I laughed out loud A LOT and cheered Penelope every step of the way.”—John Hart, author of The Last Child
“Inman Majors is a sparklingly funny, immensely charming writer. PENELOPE LEMON gives us a hapless, scrappy, loveable heroine to root for and a whole cast of great characters.” —Kate Christensen, author of The Great Man and The Last Cruise
LOVE’S WINNING PLAYS
“(A) delightful new comic novel about SEC football.” —Wall Street Journal
“One of the 20 best books of 2012.” —Bookpage
“Funny, irreverent and savvy." —Publisher's Weekly
“Laugh-out-loud comedy populates the narrative...A sardonic, fun take on big-time college football.” —Kirkus Reviews
“It is a gem of a comedic novel, so laugh-out loud funny that readers might not even notice that if also captures the essence of the sport with humanity and grace.” —Knoxville News Sentinel
“Genuine laughs on nearly every page.” —Bookpage
“The comedy, which ranges smoothly from broad to subtle, is nonstop…(T)he writing is witty and razor—sharp throughout.” —Booklist (starred review)
“You know how sometimes you read something that makes you laugh so hard you’re embarrassed to read it in public? That’s how I felt about Love’s Winning Play." —Eliza Borné, Book Case blog, editor-in-chief of the Oxford American
“A rollicking tale of Southeastern Conference gridiron madness.”—Richmond Times-Dispatch
“Majors targets the ridiculousness of hype and hysteria over college football teams and is very funny doing it.” —Baton Rouge Advocate
“Strap yourself in—it’s a wild ride." —Library Journal
“I can’t remember the last time I laughed out loud this much reading a book.”—Metropulse
“One of our sharpest, funniest writers.”—The Classical
WONDERDOG
“A sharp and hilarious novel.” —Booklist
“Majors scores big points with his cast of friendly eccentrics, zingy dialogue, and a plot that wanders across the Southern landscape like a crazed raccoon chased by a pack of wild dogs.”
—Atlanta Journal-Constitution
“Irreverent, hilarious, reportorial…Majors does it all.”—Knoxville News Sentinel
“Uniquely entertaining.” —Seattle Times
"If (Barry) Hannah is Southern Fiction's Howlin' Wolf, then Majors may well prove to be its B.B. King...Quick-witted and irreverent.” —Planet Weekly
“Wonderdog reads like Charles Portis cross-pollinated with Barry Hannah.” —William Gay
“Wonderdog reads as if narrated by the ne’er-do-well, incorrigible, and brilliant wastrel cousin of Walker Percy’s Binx Bolling. This book’s a hell of a read.” —Brad Watson
THE MILLIONAIRES
“The best, most fully accomplished new novel I have read in perhaps three years.... (It) is in fact a kind of Southern 'Great Gatsby.” —Alabama Public Radio
“It has been 62 years since "All the King's Men," Robert Penn Warren's brilliant novel about Southern politics, appeared on the scene…Inman Majors …takes up the challenge in this wonderful new book.” Newark Star Ledger
“Majors’s depiction of a Tennessee evening is reminiscent of James Agee’s hypnotic “Knoxville: Summer of 1915,” best known as the prologue to “A Death in the Family.” —New York Times
“Giving us profligate bankers who borrow badly, "The Millionaires" is a timely work.” —Wall Street Journal
“Inman Majors has wandered into a wild territory previously wholly owned by Robert Penn Warren and established squatters' rights.” —Michael Lewis, author of Moneyball
“Entertaining and thought-provoking... It’s literature, and serious readers will want to tackle it.” —Baton Rouge Advocate
“Moving from backroom poker games to pols’ hangouts to the governor’s office, this expansive, smoothly flowing novel offers a rich look at family dynamics and overweening ambition."
—Booklist
“The Millionaires (is) a sprawling, smart, fast-moving insider novel by author, Inman Majors, who knows his way around politics, Tennessee Style.” —Memphis Magazine
“Remarkable and very timely…the story of two small-town brothers who rise to dangerous big-city heights is as big and ambitious as the physical book itself.” —Bookpage
“A stirring story. …The Millionaires reads like today's headlines, complete with a dynamic back story.”—Roanoke Times
SWIMMING IN SKY
“In this promising debut… readers will find some good laughs and remarkable insights along the way." —Bookpage
“Such a rich book that it’s near impossible to figure out how to dive into it. Filled with a distinctive voice, rare energy, and a delicate touch…Swimming in Sky has the hallmarks of a classic coming-of-age story.” —Austin Chronicle
"An accomplished first novel."—Library Journal
"Jason Sayer guides us through the landscape of an emerging new Knoxville with searing wit and devastating insight."—Ace Weekly
“It’s as if Holden Caulfield has grown up, but not been much changed, as if his intensity has become southern, rather than northeastern. Full of dazzling energy. There’s a deep human truth in this story.” —Liza Wieland
“A fine read, with moments as memorable as those from the keyboards of Denis Johnson and Thom Jones…It could be the definitive slacker novel.”—Lee K. Abbott
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