Chris Adrian (born November 7, 1970) is an American author. Adrian's writing styles in short stories vary greatly; from modernist realism to pronounced lyrical allegory. His novels both tend toward surrealism, having mostly realistic characters experience fantastic circumstances. He has written three novels: ''Gob's Grief'', ''

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''. In 2008, he published ''A Better Angel'', a collection of short stories. His short fiction has also appeared in ''

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, The Best American Short Stories,'' and ''

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''. He was one of 11 fiction writers to receive a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2009. He lives in San Francisco.

Education

Adrian completed his bachelor's degree in English from the

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in 1993. He received his M.D. from Eastern Virginia Medical School in 2001. He completed a pediatric residency at the

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, was a student at

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, and a fellow of pediatric hematology/oncology at UCSF in 2011. He is also a graduate of the

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. Currently, Adrian serves as the Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Columbia University Medical Center.

Bibliography

Novels

*'' Gob's Grief'' (2001) *''

'' (2006) *''

'' (2011) *''The New World'', with Eli Horowitz (2015)

Short story collections

* ''A Better Angel'' (collection, 2008, FS

includes: **''High Speeds (1997) (originally published in Story) **''The Sum of Our Parts'' (1999) (originally published in

) **''Stab'' (2006) (originally published in Zoetrope: All-Story) **''The Vision of Peter Damien'' (2007) (originally published in Zoetrope: All-Story) **''A Better Angel'' (2006) (originally published in The New Yorker) **''The Changeling'' (2007) (originally published in '' Esquire (magazine), Esquire'' as "Promise Breaker") **''A Hero of Chickamauga'' (1999) (originally published in Story) **''A Child's Book of Sickness and Death'' (2004) (originally published in

14) **''Why Antichrist?'' (2007) (originally published in

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) * Uncollected **''You Can Have It'' (1996) (published in

141) **''Grief'' (1997) (published in

) **''Every Night for a Thousand Years'' (1997) (published in

) **''Horse and Horseman'' (1998) (published in Zoetrope: All-Story
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**''The Glass House'' (2000) (published in

) **''The Stepfather'' (2005) (published in McSweeney's 18) **''A Tiny Feast'' (2009) (published in

) **''The Black Square'' (2009) (published in McSweeney's 32) **''The Warm Fuzzies'' (2010) (published in

) **''Grand Rounds'' (2012) (published in

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120)

References

External links

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1970 births Living people University of Florida College of Liberal Arts and Sciences alumni Harvard Divinity School alumni Eastern Virginia Medical School alumni American surrealist novelists American short story writers University of California, San Francisco alumni Iowa Writers' Workshop alumni American medical writers American oncologists American gay writers American LGBT novelists American male novelists American male short story writers American male non-fiction writers 21st-century American novelists 21st-century American male writers 21st-century LGBT people {{US-story-writer-stub