More by and about this author. In fact, through controversy about one of its newest releases, publishers at macmillan’s flatiron books have made the “difficult decision” to cancel jeanine cummins’ american dirt book tour. Dirt - By Bill Buford Hardcover Self Deprecating Humor Hardcover Book Week Get insights on @the turnpike troubadours, stoney larue, jason boland & the stragglers and more! The dirt book author . Popularity original publication year title average rating number of pages. It might make more sense if you are bill buford, author of heat, the 2006 book that did for italian food what, frankly, dirt will do for french cuisine. Maybe they will even find an old, tattered copy of dirt: Tommy lee (author), vince neil (author), nikki sixx (author), mick mars (author) & 1 more. American dirt is a 2020 novel by american author jeanine cummins, about the ordeal of a mexican woman who had to leave behind her life and escape as an undocumented immigrant to the unit...