Timothy Martin Gautreaux born 1947 in Morgan City Louisiana is a novelist and short story writer who lives in Hammond Louisiana where he is Writer in Residence at Southeastern Louisiana University. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker Best American Short Stories Atlantic Harper s and GQ His novel The Next Step in the Dance won the 1999 SEBA Book Award His novel The Clearing won the 1999 Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance SIBA Book Award and the 2003 Mid South Independent Booksellers Association Award He also won the 2005 John Dos Passos Prize. Gautreaux also authored Same Place Same Things and Welding with Children collections of short stories His 2009 novel The Missing was described as his best yet by New Orleans Times Picayune book editor Susan Larson in a featured article Gautreaux notes that his family s blue collar background has been a significant influence on his writing His father was a tugboat captain and his grandfather was a steamboat engineer Given those influences he says I pride myself in writing a broad spectrum fiction fiction that appeals to both intellectuals and blue collar types Many times I ve heard stories of people who don t read short stories or people who have technical jobs who like my fiction In addition Gautreaux has made clear that he is not interested in being classified as a Southern writer preferring instead to say that he is a writer who happens to live in the South He is much comfortable embracing his Roman Catholicism saying I ve always been a Roman Catholic since baptism since birth. Una novela magistral ambientada en los barcos de vapor que recorr an el Misisipi durante las primeras d cadas del siglo XX cargados de bebida baile y jazz Cuando una ni a es secuestrada en unos grandes almacenes de Nueva Orleans al supervisor Sam Simoneaux lo atormentan la culpa el dolor y los fantasmas de su turbulento pasado Decidido a encontrarla Sam emprende un viaje que lo llevar a mundos de m sica y violencia y a pantanos rec nditos que ocultan a quienes eligen vivir seg n sus propias leyes DesaparecidosMaravilla, Le do en dos sentadas porque no pod a soltarlo ten a que saber que iba a pasar despu s Desaparecidos 45 Desaparecidos