Daniel Woodrell, gritty novelist of ‘Winter’s Bone,’ dies at 72

Daniel Woodrell, gritty novelist of ‘Winter’s Bone,’ dies at 72

Daniel Woodrell, a much-admired novelist who coined the term “country noir” for his bleak rural crime fiction often set in his native Missouri Ozarks, died Nov. 28 at his home in West Plains, Missouri. He was 72.