Frazier, Charles (1950- )

US writer. His US Civil War novel Cold Mountain (1997; filmed 2003) won the National Book Award and was on the New York Times best-seller list for more than a year. The novel follows the journey of a Civil War deserter on his way home to his beloved, as well as her struggle to survive, poverty-stricken, after the death of her father. He followed with the novel Thirteen Moons (2006), a story of an orphan's journey into the Cherokee Nation in the early 19th-century USA.