“Damn exciting.”--Stewart O’Nan,
author of Snow Angels, Faithful, Songs for the
Missing
“At once memoir, confession, travel book and
thriller, David Vann's A Mile Down is so vivid and
intense you will dread to see it end…. The book is
a testimony of passion and courage in deadly
storms and scarier calms, of a man wrestling with
his ghosts and gifts in the very shadow of
paradise."--Robert Morgan, author of Gap
Creek and Brave Enemies
author of Snow Angels, Faithful, Songs for the
Missing
“At once memoir, confession, travel book and
thriller, David Vann's A Mile Down is so vivid and
intense you will dread to see it end…. The book is
a testimony of passion and courage in deadly
storms and scarier calms, of a man wrestling with
his ghosts and gifts in the very shadow of
paradise."--Robert Morgan, author of Gap
Creek and Brave Enemies
David Vann’s work has
appeared in The Atlantic
Monthly, Esquire, Men's
Journal, Outside, Outside's
GO, National Geographic
Adventure, Writer's Digest,
and other magazines and
won various prizes and
awards. Currently a
National Endowment for the
Arts Fellow, he's also been
a Wallace Stegner Fellow,
taught at Stanford, Cornell,
SF State, and FSU, and is a
professor at the University
of San Francisco. He was
born on Adak Island, Alaska
and lives in the SF Bay
Area with his wife Nancy.
He recently found out he's
part Cherokee, related to
the Cherokee Chief David
Vann..
appeared in The Atlantic
Monthly, Esquire, Men's
Journal, Outside, Outside's
GO, National Geographic
Adventure, Writer's Digest,
and other magazines and
won various prizes and
awards. Currently a
National Endowment for the
Arts Fellow, he's also been
a Wallace Stegner Fellow,
taught at Stanford, Cornell,
SF State, and FSU, and is a
professor at the University
of San Francisco. He was
born on Adak Island, Alaska
and lives in the SF Bay
Area with his wife Nancy.
He recently found out he's
part Cherokee, related to
the Cherokee Chief David
Vann..
Author David Vann
© Copyright 2005-9 David Vann
| Now a National Bestseller! |
| #4 Washington Post, #7 L.A. Times |
Recent feature articles in Esquire (Aug 08), Outside (Oct 08), Outside's GO (Fall 08),and National Geographic Adventure (Jan 09)
"This is one of the most striking fictional debuts in recent memory, and
David Vann is an important new voice in American literature."--Robert
Olen Butler, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Good Scent from a
Strange Mountain
"In his portrayal of a young son's love for his lost father David Vann has
created a stunning work of fiction: surprising, beautiful and intensely
moving"--Nadeem Aslam, author of Maps for Lost Lovers and The
Wasted Vigil
"As the title suggests, the stories in Legend of a Suicide approach a
private mythos, revisiting, reinvestigating and reinventing one family's
broken past. They also transport us to wild, uncharted places on the
Alaskan coast and in the American soul. Throughout, David Vann is a
generous, surehanded guide in some very dangerous territory."--Stewart
O'Nan
David Vann is an important new voice in American literature."--Robert
Olen Butler, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Good Scent from a
Strange Mountain
"In his portrayal of a young son's love for his lost father David Vann has
created a stunning work of fiction: surprising, beautiful and intensely
moving"--Nadeem Aslam, author of Maps for Lost Lovers and The
Wasted Vigil
"As the title suggests, the stories in Legend of a Suicide approach a
private mythos, revisiting, reinvestigating and reinventing one family's
broken past. They also transport us to wild, uncharted places on the
Alaskan coast and in the American soul. Throughout, David Vann is a
generous, surehanded guide in some very dangerous territory."--Stewart
O'Nan
| Winner of the Grace Paley Prize |
| National Endowment for the Arts fellowship 2008 for Crocodile: Murder In a Mexican Drug-Running Port, a new, unpublished memoir which tells the story of the initial disasters in Mexico leading up to A Mile Down. Read an excerpt of Crocodile at www.arts.gov. Four years of feature film options sold. |
CNN and Recent NPR Interviews: thestory.org re pirates, Chicago Public Radio re NIU shooter, MPR re Legend of a Suicide
| Reprinted in the International Herald Tribune, the global edition of the New York Times |
| Read the first chapter, in the New York Times online |
| UK, Australia, New Zealand from Viking UK October 2009 |
| Paperback from HarperCollins January 2010 |
| Winner of a California Book Award |
| French edition from Editions Gallmeister |
| Italian edition from Bompiani |
Last Day On Earth wins 2009 AWP Nonfiction Prize, judged by Lee Gutkind
(book on NIU shooter, to be published 2010 or 2011)
(book on NIU shooter, to be published 2010 or 2011)