West Virginia author Lee Maynard will be featured on National Public Radio’s nationally syndicated program,”Fresh Air,”at 7 p.m. Monday (Nov. 24).

A West Virginia native, Maynard was born in Wayne County and grew up in the county’s small towns and hollows that shape much of his writing. His relatives still live in the county, as they have for more than 200 years.

Maynard is a graduate of West Virginia University and attended graduate school at Marshall University. In addition to being an accomplished novelist, short story writer, screenwriter, editor and journalist, Maynard has been an assignment writer for Reader’s Digest for more than a decade.

He has been published more than 100 times in publications as diverse as The Saturday Review, Reader’s Digest, Columbia Review of Literature, Appalachian Heritage, Washington Post, Country America, Christian Science Monitor and on MightyWords, an e-publishing site.

“Crum,”his first novel, was published by Washington Square Press, a division of Simon&Schuster, in 1988. The second edition of”Crum”was published in 2001 as the first book from Vandalia Press, an imprint of West Virginia University Press.

Maynard wrote”Screaming with the Cannibals,”a sequel to”Crum,”with support from a Literary Fellowship in Fiction from the National Endowment for the Arts. It was published last month by Vandalia Press.

An avid outdoorsman and conservationist, Maynard is a mountaineer, sea kayaker, skier and former professional river runner. He recently rode a motorcycle from his home near Santa Fe, N.M., to the Arctic Circle. For more information on Maynard or to order copies of his books, call toll free 1-866-WVU-PRESS (988-7737) or visitwww.wvupress.com.

For more information on the”Fresh Air”interview, go tohttp://freshair.npr.org/.