Robin Sloan

Robin Sloan

Robin Sloan (born December 19, 1979 near Detroit ) is an American business information scientist and novelist .

Life

Robin Sloan attended Athens High School in Troy, Michigan and studied economics at Michigan State University . Since then he has worked for various online platforms such as a. on Twitter . In 2012 he published his first novel, which became a bestseller in the United States. The book has been translated into eight languages ​​and has appeared in over 20 countries, including two editions in German.

As announced in the book's blurb, Sloan wrote a short prequel titled Ajax Penumbra in 1969 , which tells of events that predate those of the book.

The bibliophiles at the Grolier Club in New York City invited him to a reading.

Sloan lives in San Francisco .

Works

• Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore . Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York 2012, ISBN 978-0-37421-491-3 .
  • Mr. Penumbra's strange bookstore . From the American by Ruth Keen. Karl Blessing Verlag, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-89667-480-7 .
• Ajax Penumbra 1969. Atlantic Books, London 2014, ISBN 978-1-78239-517-1 .
  • The incredible discovery of Mr. Penumbra. From the American by Wolfgang Müller. Random House, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-641-14065-6 , Ebook ISBN 978-3-641-14065-6 .
• Sourdough: A Novel . New York: MCD Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017 ISBN 978-0-374-20310-8

Web links

• Literature by and about Robin Sloan in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Robin Sloan in the WorldCat bibliographic database
• Short biography and reviews of works by Robin Sloan at perlentaucher.de
• Robin Sloan , website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Janet Maslin: Google Aces Can't Defeat Bibliophiles , New York Times , November 7, 2012
2. ↑ Note on the prequel on Robin Sloan's website, accessed August 12, 2016
3. ↑ Jennifer Schuessler: Robin Sloan, Digital Guru, Takes a Journey Into Print , at New York Times , October 3, 2012