Trent Zelazny is an American author and journalist. He is the author of The Forgotten: A Tale of American Passage, the story of the ten immigrants who made it over the Appalachian Mountains in early 1783 to settle in Ocracoke, North Carolina. The book has been called "a daring, beautiful, sad, funny account of what it means to be an outsider" by Grace Paley in The New York Times. The novel was a finalist for the James Fenimore Cooper Prize for Fiction and won the William Hill Sparks Award for Fiction
It was also named one of Amazon.com's Best Books of 2008. His second novel, The Last Child, won the William Hill Sparks Award for Fiction in 2011.
Snobbery might sometimes look cool, like smoking, but the end result is usually a repelling one.Trent Zelazny
Art is art. You can take it or leave it. Liking it or not liking it does not make you a better person, and who you like or dislike results in the same thing.Trent Zelazny
