Tom Drury opens the 2017 U.S. Embassy Literature Series at English Theatre Berlin.
Born
1956 (age 67–68) Iowa, U.S.
Nationality
American
Education
University of Iowa (BA) Brown University (MFA)
Genre
Literary fiction
Notable works
The End of Vandalism
Notable awards
Guggenheim Fellowship, Berlin Prize
Website
www.tomdrury.net
Tom Drury (born 1956) is an American novelist and the author of The End of Vandalism. He was included in the 1996 Granta issue of "The Best of Young American Novelists"[1] and has received the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Berlin Prize, and the MacDowell Fellowship. His short stories have been serialized in The New Yorker[2] and his essays have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Harper's Magazine, North American Review, and Mississippi Review.
His fiction, set in the American midwest, has been described by The Guardian as having "a kind of dislocation; a 1950s or 60s sensibility dropped into a 90s social landscape."[3] In 2015, The Guardian called him "an overlooked giant of American comic fiction."[4]The Independent compared him to Jonathan Franzen, Dave Eggers and David Foster Wallace, and called him "the greatest writer you've never heard of . . . a cult figure, the new Richard Yates", writing: "His anonymity is a literary tragedy."[5]
He has taught writing at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, Yale University, Wesleyan University, Florida State University, and La Salle University.
^"Best of Young American Novelists". Granta Magazine (54). Granta Publications. Summer 1996.
^"Tom Drury Latest Articles". The New Yorker. Retrieved July 25, 2023.
^McGregor, Jon, and Yiyun Li (6 November 2015). "In praise of Tom Drury's small-town America". The Guardian. Retrieved July 25, 2023.
^Lawson, Mark (28 November 2015). "Pacific by Tom Drury review – an overlooked giant of American comic fiction". The Guardian. Retrieved July 25, 2023.
^Kidd, James (17 April 2015). "Why does Tom Drury remain the greatest writer you've never heard of?". The Independent. Retrieved July 25, 2023.
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