His ‘country noir’ novels (a genre he coined) included “Winter’s Bone” for which he was best known.
A full obituary, written by Alex Traub, appeared in the New York Times, Nov. 30, 2025. In it, Daniel’s wife, Katie Estill-Woodrell, said the cause of his death was pancreatic cancer.
According to the New York Times obituary: Daniel Stanford Woodrell was born on March 4, 1953, in Springfield, Mo. After a stint in the Marines beginning at the age of 17, he earned a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Kansas in his late 20s and then got a master’s degree from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Daniel and Katie married in 1984 and moved around the West, South and Midwest until the mid-1990s, around the time “Give Us a Kiss” was published, when they settled in West Plains for good. In addition to his wife, Mr. Woodrell is survived by a brother, Ted.
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