Alex Gilvarry (b. 1981 on Staten Island, NY) is an American writer. He is the author of the novels ''From the Memoirs of a Non-Enemy Combatant'' (2012) and ''Eastman Was Here'' (2017). In 2009, Gilvarry graduated from CUNY - Hunter College's MFA Program in Creative Writing. He was included on the

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's "5 Under 35" list in 2014, and ''Eastman Was Here'' was chosen as one of the best books of 2017 by Esquire. He is a professor of Creative Writing at

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. He is 6'3" and lives on Staten Island and is married to the writer

Alexandra Kleeman Alexandra Kleeman (born 1986) is an American writer. Winner of the 2020 Rome Prize, her work has been reviewed in ''The New York Times'', ''The Guardian'', ''Vanity Fair (magazine), Vanity Fair'', ''Vogue (magazine), Vogue'', and the ''Los Angele ...

Bibliography

* ''From the Memoirs of a Non-Enemy Combatant'' (2012) * ''Eastman Was Here'' (2017)

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