Tom Drury

Tom Drury

Thomas Jay "Tom" Drury (born in Iowa in 1956 ) is an American writer.

Life

Tom Drury hails from a farm in Iowa. He studied journalism at the University of Iowa and after graduating in 1980 went to the regional press as a reporter and editor. He was admitted to Brown University for graduate studies and received an MA in English and Creative Writing from Robert Coover in 1987 , which he finally taught himself at Wesleyan University in the 1990s .

After he was able to publish his first short story in The New Yorker in 1991 , he became a freelance writer and was able to accommodate his contributions in other national magazines. His first novel was published in 1994. In 1996, Granta recognized him as the best young writer and in 2001 received a Guggenheim Fellowship . His novel Pacific was long-listed for the National Book Award in 2013 . The story Path Lights , which appeared in the New Yorker , was filmed by Zachary Sluser in 2014 . In the 2017 summer semester, Drury held the Picador Guest Professorship for Literature at the Institute for American Studies at the University of Leipzig .

Drury lived in Massachusetts , Connecticut , Florida, and California , where he maintained the website at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art . After a stay in Brooklyn , he moved back to Iowa.

Works (selection)

• The End of Vandalism . Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1994.
  • The end of vandalism: novel . From the American. by Gerhard Falkner and Nora Matocza. Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta, 2010.
• The Black Brook . Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1998.
• Hunts in Dreams . Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000.
  • The dream hunters: Roman . From the American. by Gerhard Falkner and Nora Matocza. Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta, 2008.
• Driftless area . New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2006.
  • The quiet land: Roman . From the American. by Gerhard Falkner and Nora Matocza. Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta, 2015, ISBN 978-3-608-98022-6 .
• Pacific: a novel . New York: Grove, 2013.
• Grouse County ; Romantic trilogy - translated by Gerhard Falkner and Nora Matocza. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2017.

Web links

• Literature by and about Tom Drury in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Tom Drury in the WorldCat bibliographic database
• Tom Drury in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Short biography and reviews of works by Tom Drury at perlentaucher.de
• Tom Drury , Contribution to The New Yorker (1991-2005)
• Tom Drury , at the American Academy in Berlin

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Elmar Krekeler: A fine guy , in: Literarian World , January 31, 2015, p. 3
2. ↑ Thorsten Gränke: In Dignity continue , review, in: FAZ February 21, 2015, p. 10