Tomato Red (1998) was adapted for a 2017 feature film by Irish writer and director Juanita Wilson.

Several critics called it one of the best films of the year and an American classic, and it received four Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture. Winter's Bone (2006) was adapted by writer and director Debra Granik for a film of the same title, released commercially in June 2010 after winning two awards at the Sundance Film Festival, including the Grand Jury Prize for a dramatic film. Woodrell's second novel, Woe to Live On (1987), was adapted for the 1999 film Ride with the Devil, directed by Ang Lee. In addition to finding readers for his fiction, Woodrell has had three novels adapted for films. Language, plot, dialogue, sense of place, energy, tension.He’s interested in the whole of humanity through the lens of his place.' However, William Boyle, an avowed fan and fellow author of literary crime fiction, put Woodrell's work in broader context: 'this Woodrell guy’s got double of everything. He has created novels based on crime, a style he termed 'country noir', a phrase which has been adopted by commentators on his work. Woodrell has set most of his eight novels in the Missouri Ozarks, a landscape which he knew from childhood. He lives in West Plains, Missouri, in the Ozarks and is married to the novelist Katie Estill. The University of Missouri Kansas City awarded an honorary doctorate to Daniel Woodrell on December 17, 2016. Later he earned a BA from the University of Kansas and an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. He grew up in Missouri and dropped out of high school to join the Marines. Woodrell was born in Springfield, Missouri, in the southwestern corner of the state.

Reviewers have frequently since used the term to categorize his writing. Woodrell coined the phrase 'country noir' to describe his 1996 novel Give Us a Kiss. Daniel Woodrell (born March 4, 1953) is an American novelist and short story writer, who has written nine novels, most of them set in the Missouri Ozarks, and one collection of short stories.

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