Chris Adrian (born November 7, 1970) is an American author. Adrian's writing styles in short stories vary greatly; from modernist realism to pronounced lyrical allegory. His novels tend toward surrealism, having mostly realistic characters experience fantastic circumstances. He has written four novels: Gob's Grief, The Children's Hospital, The Great Night, and The New World. In 2008, he published A Better Angel, a collection of short stories. His short fiction has also appeared in The Paris Review, Zoetrope, Ploughshares,[1] McSweeney's, The New Yorker, The Best American Short Stories, and Story. He was one of 11 fiction writers to receive a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2009.[2] He lives in San Francisco.[3]
Chris Adrian | |
|---|---|
| Born | November 7, 1970 Washington, D.C., U.S. |
| Occupation | Author Physician |
| Genre | Novel Short Story |
Education
editAdrian completed his bachelor's degree in English from the University of Florida in 1993. He received his M.D. from Eastern Virginia Medical School in 2001. He completed a pediatric residency at the University of California, San Francisco, was a student at Harvard Divinity School, and a fellow of pediatric hematology/oncology at UCSF in 2011. He is also a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Currently, Adrian serves as the Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Columbia University Medical Center.[4]
Bibliography
editNovels
edit- Gob's Grief (2001)
- The Children's Hospital (2006)
- The Great Night (2011)
- The New World, with Eli Horowitz (2015)
Short story collections
edit- A Better Angel (collection, 2008, FSG)[1] includes:
- High Speeds (1997) (originally published in Story)
- The Sum of Our Parts (1999) (originally published in Ploughshares)
- Stab (2006) (originally published in Zoetrope: All-Story)
- The Vision of Peter Damien (2007) (originally published in Zoetrope: All-Story)
- A Better Angel (2006) (originally published in The New Yorker)
- The Changeling (2007) (originally published in Esquire as "Promise Breaker")
- A Hero of Chickamauga (1999) (originally published in Story)
- A Child's Book of Sickness and Death (2004) (originally published in McSweeney's 14)
- Why Antichrist? (2007) (originally published in Tin House)
- Uncollected
- You Can Have It (1996) (published in The Paris Review 141)
- Grief (1997) (published in Story)
- Every Night for a Thousand Years (1997) (published in The New Yorker)
- Horse and Horseman (1998) (published in Zoetrope: All-Story) Available online
- The Glass House (2000) (published in The New Yorker)
- The Stepfather (2005) (published in McSweeney's 18)
- A Tiny Feast (2009) (published in The New Yorker)
- The Black Square (2009) (published in McSweeney's 32)
- The Warm Fuzzies (2010) (published in The New Yorker)
- Grand Rounds (2012) (published in Granta 120)
References
edit- ^ "Author Details". Pshares.org. Retrieved December 4, 2013.
- ^ "Guggenheim Fellowships for 2009 Announced". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved April 21, 2009.
- ^ "Chris Adrian". MacMillian. Retrieved February 24, 2021.
- ^ Rauch, Catharine (July 22, 2010). "A Conversation with UCSF Fellow Chris Adrian, a New Yorker Writer to Watch". UCSF. Retrieved February 24, 2021.
External links
edit- Chris Adrian at the Internet Book List
- Info on Adrian
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