David Means
David Means (born October 17, 1961 in Kalamazoo ) is an American writer.
Life
David Means attended high school in Kalamazoo and studied literature at the College of Wooster (BA) and Columbia University (MFA). Means worked intermittently as a lecturer at Vassar College . Today he lives with his wife and twins in Nyack near New York.
His short stories have appeared in Esquire , The New Yorker and Harper’s , among others . He published several anthologies. His first novel Hystopia was on the longlist of the Man Booker Prize in 2016 .
Awards
- 2000: Los Angeles Times Book Prize (Fiction) for Assorted Fire Events: Stories
Works (selection)
- A Quick Kiss of Redemption & Other Stories . New York: Morrow, 1991 ISBN 0-688-09459-7
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Assorted Fire Events . Fourth Estate, 2000 ISBN 1-893956-05-9
- Coitus: Stories . Translation of Dirk van Gunsteren . Cologne: DuMont, 2005 ISBN 978-3-8321-7869-7
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The Secret Goldfish . 2004 ISBN 0-00-716489-0
- The nest . Translation of Dirk van Gunsteren. Cologne: DuMont, 2006 ISBN 978-3-8321-7963-2
- The Spot: stories . 2010 ISBN 978-0-86547-912-8
- Hystopia: a novel . Rearsby, Leicester: WF Howes, 2016 ISBN 978-0865479135
- Instructions for a funeral . New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019 ISBN 9780374279813
Web links
- Literature by and about David Means in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about David Means in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Short biography and reviews of works by David Means at perlentaucher.de
- Ian Crouch: The Exchange: David Means , The New Yorker, July 19, 2010
- David Means , at Macmillan
- David Means , at Vassar College
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Man Booker Prize 2016 longlist , accessed May 5, 2019
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Means, David |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 17th October 1961 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kalamazoo |