Apprentice work and biographical context
Drafting The orchard keeper : remnants of the first draft
The "late draft"
Revision for Lawrence Bensky
Working with Albert Erskine
Placing excerpts in periodicals
Compiling the jacket copy
Awards
Reviews and sales
Biographical context and the novel's genesis
the drafting process
Culla's monologues
Sins of the father : the triune surface
The ferry scene and Culla's psychotic break
Culla's dreams
The triune walk
Rinthy's Evolution
The murder of the tinker
The child sacrifice
Culla and the blind man
New Orleans to Knoxville to Europe, 1964-1967
The editing stage
Publication and reception
Subsidiary rights and awards
Genesis
The auction
The high sheriff of Sevier County
Contrary oxen and the unidentified storytellers
The child and the frozen robin
The blacksmith
Domestic life and writing life in Tennessee, 1967-1973
Representation by the Robert Lantz-Candida
Donadio literary agency
Revising Child of God in the middle and late draft stages
The editing stage
Publication and reception
Afterword : 1974.