“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, 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 and
Cornell, and is a professor
at FSU. He was born on
Adak Island, Alaska and
lives in Tallahassee, Florida
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, 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 and
Cornell, and is a professor
at FSU. He was born on
Adak Island, Alaska and
lives in Tallahassee, Florida
with his wife Nancy. He
recently found out he's part
Cherokee, related to the
Cherokee Chief David Vann.
.
Author David Vann
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| Now a National Bestseller! |
| #4 Washington Post, #7 L.A. Times |
New feature articles in Esquire (Aug 08), Outside (Oct 08), and Outside's GO (Fall 08)
"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
"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
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
"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
| Legend of a Suicide Coming November 2008 |
| 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. |