Author David Vann
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Sukkwan Island wins Le Prix des Lecteurs de L'Express (national book prize in France) and Le Prix des Lecteurs de la Maison du Livre de Rodez (local book prize in France) The Times Book Club (UK) chooses Legend of a Suicide, June 2010 Lorrie Moore chooses Legend of a Suicide for The New Yorker Book Club, April 2010 Chris Meloni from Law & Order SVU options Legend of a Suicide Legend of a Suicide and Caribou Island (a new novel Jan 2011) both in 9 languages, 50 countries Legend of a Suicide on 25 "Best Books of the Year" lists, including New York Times and Times Literary Supplement Winner of the Grace Paley Prize, a California Book Award, and the AWP Nonfiction Prize Shortlisted for the Sunday Times Short Story Award and the Story Prize Sukkwan Island a National Bestseller in France for 5 months in 2010 A Mile Down a National Bestseller (LA Times and Washington Post) Last Day On Earth: A Portrait of the NIU School Shooter, Steve Kazmierczak, coming out fall 2011 Features, essays, and stories in 15 million copies of magazines Documentaries with NOVA, BBC, CNN, and E! Entertainment A truly great writer. -The Irish Sunday Independent One of the best writers of his generation. -Le Figaro His legend is at once the truest memoir and the purest fiction...Nothing quite like this book has been written before. - Alex Linklater, The Observer The great American novel we've awaited. -Le Point From the shores of Vann’s Alaska one can see the Russia of Turgenev’s Fathers and Sons… “A father, after all,” Vann writes, “is a lot for a thing to be.” A son is also a lot for a thing to be; so is an artist. With Legend of a Suicide David Vann proves himself a fine example of both. -Tom Bissell, The New York Times A masterpiece. -France Inter A new great American novelist. -France Info Brilliant . . . Vann’s prose follows the sinews of Cormac McCarthy and Hemingway, yet has its own nimble flex. -The Times |
| An American classic. -The Sunday Times |
David Vann’s work has appeared in The Sunday Times, The Atlantic Monthly, Esquire, The Observer, Elle UK, The Telegraph, Men's Journal, Outside,
Outside's GO, Men's Health, National Geographic Adventure, Writer's Digest, and other magazines and won various prizes and awards. A former
National Endowment for the Arts Fellow, Wallace Stegner Fellow, and John L'Heureux Fellow, he's taught at Stanford, Cornell, SF State, FSU, and is
currently an Associate 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.
Outside's GO, Men's Health, National Geographic Adventure, Writer's Digest, and other magazines and won various prizes and awards. A former
National Endowment for the Arts Fellow, Wallace Stegner Fellow, and John L'Heureux Fellow, he's taught at Stanford, Cornell, SF State, FSU, and is
currently an Associate 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.
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