Gary Krist (writer)
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Gary Krist | |
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| Born | 1957 (age 66–67) Jersey City, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Princeton University |
| Genre | Narrative nonfiction; novels; short stories |
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Gary Michael Krist (born 1957) is an
novels
--Bad Chemistry (1998), Chaos Theory (2000), and Extravagance (2002). He has also written two short story collections--The Garden State (1988) and Bone by Bone (1994). His latest book is The Mirage Factory: Illusion, Imagination, and the Invention of Los Angeles (2018).
Career
He has been a frequent book reviewer for Best American Mystery Stories.
He has been the recipient of The Stephen Crane Award, the
The American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Lowell Thomas Gold Medal for Travel Journalism, and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. "Empire of Sin" was named one of the top ten books of 2014 by The Washington Post and Library Journal. Krist has been awarded a 2020-2021 Public Scholar grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities
to support the research for his next book, about the early history of San Francisco.
Life
Born in
Fulbright Scholarship
. The author has been profiled in The New York Times Book Review (November 6, 1988) and the Style section of The Washington Post (February 25, 2007).
Krist and his wife live in
Jersey City, New Jersey
.
Bibliography
- Novels and story collections
- The Garden State New York : Vintage Books, 1988. OCLC 19920702
- Bone by Bone New York Harcourt Brace, 1994. OCLC 832166232
- Bad Chemistry New York: Random House, 1998. OCLC 228438897
- Chaos Theory New York : Jove Books, 2001. OCLC 46321399
- Extravagance New York : Broadway Books, 2002. OCLC 53075282
- Nonfiction
- The White Cascade: The Great Northern Railway Disaster and America's Deadliest Avalanche New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2007. OCLC 150384796
- City of Scoundrels: The 12 Days of Disaster that Gave Birth to Modern Chicago New York: Broadway Books, 2012. OCLC 801926578
- OCLC 951367121
- The Mirage Factory: Illusion, Imagination, and the Invention of Los Angeles New York: Crown Publishers, 2018. OCLC 1037895213
External links
- Gary Krist's website
- The White Cascade website
- Interview with Gary Krist about 'The White Cascade'
- NPR Interview with Gary Krist about 'City of Scoundrels'
- [1] Dining With Strangers interview with Gary Krist about 'Empire of Sin'
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