Lee Irby

Lee Irby (born 1963) is an American novelist and historian.

He is the author of three major novels. The first, 7,000 Clams (as of 2010, in 596 libraries according to WorldCat),

Irby was born in Richmond, Virginia, in 1963. He graduated from the University of Virginia in 1986 with degrees in English and History. He then set about seeing the world, living in St. Croix, Italy, Mexico, and several major U.S. cities. He came of age in Key West, Florida, where he worked many odd jobs but found his voice as a writer amid the human debris of that island city.

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