Thomas Mullen
Thomas Mullen (born 1974 in Providence , Rhode Island ) is an American writer and journalist.
Life
Mullen graduated from Portsmouth Abbey School in Portsmouth and the University of Oberlin College in Ohio . As long as there was insufficient income from the publication of novels, he worked as a journalist and was the editor of specialist magazines for medical and banking professionals. His reports, short stories, and essays have appeared in Grantland , Paste, and the Huffington Post . His Atlanta Magazine True Crime Story about a Mad Novelist won the City and Regional Magazine Award for Best Feature .
In 2006 his debut novel The Last Town on Earth was published . This historical novel about the events in an American small town during a Spanish flu -Seuchenjahres in the 1910s was due to the excellence of research in details and overall picture in 2007 the Society of American Historians Prize for Historical Fiction from the American historian Association Society of American Historians . It was named "Best Debut Novel of the Year" by USA Today magazine in 2006 and one of its "Books of the Year" by the Chicago Tribune . The filming rights were sold to Dreamworks .
His other novels of various genres such as The Many Deaths of the Firefly Brothers (2010) and The Revisionists (2011) received good reviews. The historic crime novel Darktown (2015) about the oppressive racism within the police force of historic Atlanta from 1948 was the author's second novel to be translated into German; The German title of the same name was published by DuMont in 2018 . The novel Lightning Men (2017) is the second volume in the crime series that he started with Darktown . Sony Pictures Entertainment has secured the filming rights.
Thomas Mullen is married with two children and lives near Atlanta , Georgia .
Works
- 2006 The Last Town on Earth , Penguin Random House
- City at the end of the world , novel, from the English by Gerlinde Schermer-Rauwolf and Robert A. Weiß, Hoffmann and Campe , Hamburg 2007, 479 p., ISBN 978-3-455-05182-7 .
- 2010 The Many Deaths of the Firefly Brothers , Roman, Penguin Random House
- 2011 The Revisionists ( Mulholland Books US and Mulholland Books (UK) )
- 2015 Darktown , Simon and Schuster
- Darktown , Roman, from the English by Berni Mayer , DuMont, Cologne 2018, 479 pages, ISBN 978-3-8321-8353-0 .
- 2017 Lightning Men , Roman, Simon and Schuster
- White fire , novel, translated from English by Berni Mayer, DuMont, Cologne 2019, ISBN 978-3-8321-8395-0 .
Awards
- 2007: Society of American Historians Prize for Historical Fiction for The Last Town on Earth
Web links
- Website of the author (English)
- Author Profile at Georgia Center for Books , accessed December 11, 2018
- Black in Blue: Atlanta's first African American police officers were vanguards of the civil rights movement by Thomas Mullen, in Atlanta Magazine on September 21, 2016, accessed December 11, 2018
- A conversation with Thomas Mullen , creativeloafing.com on April 9, 2018, accessed December 11, 2018
supporting documents
- ↑ a b Author profile at Verlag Simon and Schuster , accessed on December 11, 2018.
- ↑ Past Awards | The Society of American Historians , Columbia University April 18, 2012, accessed December 11, 2018
- ↑ Best Debut Novel of the Year , USA Today, September 6, 2006, accessed December 11, 2018
- ^ Author profile at Penguin Random House , accessed December 11, 2018.
- ↑ Jeff VanderMeer: The Many Deaths of the Firefly Brothers by Thomas Mullen , Los Angeles Times, January 24, 2010, accessed December 11, 2018
- ↑ Book review: The Revisionists , Wayback Archives of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, September 20, 2011, accessed December 21, 2018
- ^ All sides hated , review in Deutschlandfunk from November 27, 2018, accessed December 11, 2018
- ↑ Book # 2 of The Darktown Series , Simon and Schuster, accessed December 11, 2018
- ↑ Literary Atlanta Episode 12: Thomas Mullen , Literary Atlanta October 19, 2017, accessed December 11, 2018
- ^ List of winners of the Society of American Historians Prize for Historical Fiction (formerly known as the James Fenimore Cooper Prize) , accessed December 11, 2018.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mullen, Thomas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American writer and journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1974 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Providence , Rhode Island |