Author/Publication Blurb: David Vann

 

David Vann is an author and creative writing professor at the University of Warwick in England. His internationally-bestselling books have won 15 awards, including the Prix Médicis étranger 2010 in France for best foreign novel and the P     David Vann is an author and creative writing professor at the University of Warwick in England. His internationally-bestselling books have won 15 awards, including the Prix Médicis étranger 2010 in France for best foreign novel and the Premi Llibreter 2011 in Spain for best foreign novel, have appeared on more than 70 “Best Books of the Year” lists in 12 countries, and are being published in 19 languages. Vann was awarded the 2011 Guggenheim Fellowship for creative arts, fiction, and has been a National Endowment of the Arts fellow, a Wallace Stegner Fellowship, and John L’Heureux fellow. His work has appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, Esquire, Outside, Men’s Health, Men’s Journal, the Sunday Times, the Observer, the Guardian, the Sunday Telegraph, the Financial Times, Elle UK, Esquire, Esquire Russia, National Geographic Adventure, Writer’s Digest, McSweeney's, and other magazines and newspapers. He has appeared in documentaries with the BBC, Nova, National Geographic, CNN, and E! Entertainment. His books have been selected for the New Yorker Book Club, the Times Book Club, the Samlerens Bogklub in Denmark, read on the BBC and North German Radio, and optioned for film. Vann has done hundreds of interviews and author events, including 40 international book festival. Legend of a Suicide was published in 2008 by University of Massachusetts Press. Later is was published in several different languages and can be purchased on amazon.com.

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