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Tom Drury (motorcyclist)
Tom Drury (born 1956) is an American novelist and the author of ''The End of Vandalism''. He was included in the 1996 ''Granta'' issue of "The Best of Young American Novelists" and has received the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Berlin Prize, and the MacDowell (artists' residency and workshop), MacDowell Fellowship. His short stories have been serialized in ''The New Yorker'' and his essays have appeared in ''The New York Times Magazine'', ''Harper's Magazine'', ''North American Review'', and ''Mississippi Review''. His fiction, set in the American midwest, has been described by ''The Guardian'' as having "a kind of dislocation; a 1950s or 60s sensibility dropped into a 90s social landscape." In 2015, ''The Guardian'' called him "an overlooked giant of American comic fiction." ''The Independent'' compared him to Jonathan Franzen, Dave Eggers and David Foster Wallace, and called him "the greatest writer you've never heard of . . . a cult figure, the new Richard Yates (novelist), Richa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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