William T. Vollmann
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Sobre l'autor
Journalist and novelist William T. Vollmann was born in 1959 and educated at Cornell University. He worked as a comptuer programmer before becoming a journalist and covering Bosnia, Sarajevo and Afghanistan. He has written extensively since 1987, when his first book, You Bright and Risen Angels, mostra'n més was published. The Atlas (1996) won the PEN Center USA West Award for the best novel by a writer living west of the Mississippi. His newest work of Non-Fiction is entitled, Imperial. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys
Crèdit de la imatge: Rich Pedroncelli / AP Photo
Sèrie
Obres de William T. Vollmann
Rising Up and Rising Down: Some Thoughts on Violence, Freedom and Urgent Means {abridged} (2004) 658 exemplars
Rising Up and Rising Down: Some Thoughts on Violence, Freedom and Urgent Means {7 Volumes} (2003) 107 exemplars
Into the Forbidden Zone: A Trip Through Hell and High Water in Post-Earthquake Japan (2011) 57 exemplars
Historias del arcoíris (2ªED) 3 exemplars
Shadows of Love, Shadows of Loneliness: Volume Two: Drawings, Prints & Paintings: 1980-2020 (2022) 3 exemplars
The Cloud Shirt (extract) 2 exemplars
The Tale of the Dying Lungs 1 exemplars
Red Hands [short fiction] 1 exemplars
Nicole 1 exemplars
The Convict Bird: A Children's Poem 1 exemplars
Machines of Loving Grace {article} 1 exemplars
De Sade's Last Stand 1 exemplars
Expectations (in McSweeney's 33 - EGGERS) 1 exemplars
Yellow Rose (in Love is Strange, ROSE) 1 exemplars
Vollmann William 1 exemplars
Obres associades
Storming the Reality Studio: A Casebook of Cyberpunk and Postmodern Science Fiction (1991) — Col·laborador — 248 exemplars
McSweeney's Issue 9 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): We Feel This One Is More Urgent (2002) — Col·laborador — 201 exemplars
Take My Advice: Letters to the Next Generation from People Who Know a Thing or Two (2002) — Col·laborador — 45 exemplars
The Review of Contemporary Fiction 1996: The Future of Fiction (1996) — Col·laborador — 21 exemplars
Die Geschichtenerzähler: Neues und Unbekanntes von Allende bis Zafón (suhrkamp taschenbuch) (2008) — Col·laborador — 4 exemplars
Black Clock 3 — Col·laborador — 1 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Nom oficial
- Vollmann, William Tanner
- Data de naixement
- 1959-07-28
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- USA
- Lloc de naixement
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- Llocs de residència
- Sacramento, California, USA
Bloomington, Indiana, USA - Educació
- University of California, Berkeley (Graduate Studies)
Cornell University (BA summa cum laude|1982 - Comparative Literature)
Deep Springs College - Professions
- journalist
novelist - Premis i honors
- American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Literature, 2007)
Whiting Writers' Award (1988)
National Book Award for Fiction (2005)
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Ressenyes
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Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 52
- També de
- 36
- Membres
- 8,503
- Popularitat
- #2,832
- Valoració
- 3.9
- Ressenyes
- 160
- ISBN
- 203
- Llengües
- 8
- Preferit
- 43
I think I'd probably be happier reading the imaginary book: "Best American Adventure Travel Writing".
The thing I like best about collections like this is being able to come to them when you need something to read but can't commit to a serious novel. This has been good bedtime reading for me this month.… (més)