Alix Hawley is the award-winning author of All True Not a Lie in It and My Name is a Knife. 

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Praise for My Name Is a Knife

Spectacular. Alix Hawley is a marvel. I'd read anything she writes."
—ALISON PICK, author of Between Gods

​"Hawley's brilliant second novel continues the story of American frontiersman Daniel Boone. This is a historical novel, but more than that it's an existential novel, sensuous, philosophical, with carefully drawn characters and deep dives into the human consciousness. If you crossed the best of Michael Ondaatje with the best of Alice Munro, Alix Hawley is what you'd get." ​
--PHILIPP MEYER, author of The Son

​“All the beauty and violence of Hilary Mantel, Michael Ondaatje or Cormac McCarthy—yet these are books like no others. Hawley’s tale of Daniel Boone is an elegy, a horror story, a breathtaking reminder of what settlers did here (and still do).”
—SEAN MICHAELS, author of Us Conductors

"History raw and bleeding, My Name Is a Knife is a superb sequel to the inside story of Daniel Boone begun in Alix Hawley’s first novel, as exciting as it is thoughtful. We’ll never see this American icon—and now, his wife, Rebecca—the same way again. Move over, James Fenimore Cooper: a woman has come to take your place.”   
—NICK MOUNT, author of Arrival