Author of
Legend of a Suicide, which
has won 10 prizes, including the Prix Medicis in France and Premi
Llibreter in Spain, been on 42 "Best Books of the Year" lists
worldwide, translated into 16 languages, selected by
The New Yorker Book Club and
The Times Book Club, read
in full on North German radio, been a national bestseller in
France, and will be made into a film. His novel
Caribou Island was a
national bestseller and read on the BBC and selected by the Danish
book club.
Last Day On Earth: A Portrait of the
NIU School Shooter, winner of the AWP Nonfiction Prize,
will be published in October 2011, and his new novel,
Dirt, will be published in 2012.
He's the author, also, of the bestselling memoir
A Mile Down: The True Story of a
Disastrous Career at Sea. A current Guggenheim Fellow
and former Wallace Stegner Fellow and NEA Fellow, he has written
for the
Sunday Times, the
Observer, the
Guardian (UK), the
Sunday Telegraph, Esquire, the
Atlantic Monthly, Outside,
Men's Health, Men's Journal, Elle UK, Esquire UK,
National Geographic Adventure, Writer's Digest, and
other magazines.
Readings
Click
here to read the first chapter of David Vann's
Legend of a Suicide in the
New York Times.
Click
here to read David Vann's "Portrait of the School
Shooter as a Young Man" in
Esquire.
Click
here to read David Vann's "Last Voyage of the Culin"
in
Outside.
Reviews
Click
here to read Lorrie Moore's review of Legend of a
Suicide for
The New Yorker Book Club.
Interviews
Click
here
to read interviews at
LeMonde (France),
The Anchorage
Daily News,
The Listener (New Zealand), and
The
Sunday Times (UK).
Documentaries
Click
here to
watch the NOVA special on PBS with David Vann.
