United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018Ruppersburg, Hugh2010-06-28Georgia novelist Philip Lee Williams’s A Distant Flame (2004) is about the struggle of an old man, Charlie Merrill, to make sense of his memories and his life. Williams’s most ambitious and successful novel to date, A Distant Flame received the 2004 Michael Shaara Prize for Civil War Fiction and in 2005 was among the Georgia Center for the Book’s top twenty-five notable books by Georgia authors.All topics: Arts & Culture, Fiction, Literature, Works of Fictiontext/htmlhttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/FictionA Distant FlameText