Chris Adrian

Chris Adrian (born November 7, 1970 in Washington, DC ) is an American pediatrician and author .

Life

Adrian studied English at the University of Florida , theology at Harvard and medicine until 2001 at the Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk (Virginia) . He attended an Iowa Writers' Workshop . In 2009 he received a Guggenheim Fellowship for Literature. The New Yorker magazine ranked him among the most important young American authors. His novel The Great Night , translated into German in 2012, is a modern adaptation of the Midsummer Night's Dream and works with the means of magical realism .

Adrian works as a pediatrician at the University of California in San Francisco .

Gob's Grief. Novel. 2001.
The Children's Hospital. Novel. 2006.
A better angel. Short stories. 2008.
- A better angel. Translated from the English by Thomas Piltz. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-498-00086-8 .
The great night. Novel. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York City 2011, ISBN 978-0-374-16641-0 .
- The big night. Translated from the English by Thomas Piltz. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-498-00085-1
with Eli Horowitz: The New World . Novel. 2015

personal data
SURNAME	Adrian, Chris
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American pediatrician and writer
DATE OF BIRTH	November 7, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH	Washington, DC , USA