Andrew McCann is an Australian professor and fiction writer. He used the pen name "

A. L. McCann Andrew Lachlan McCann is an Australian academic and writer of horror fiction. Biography McCann lives in Victoria and holds both an MA from the University of Melbourne and a PhD from Cornell University. His academic work has won him awards and ...

" for his first book, ''The White Body of Evening'', to avoid confusion with fellow Australian writer Andrew McGahan. His second fiction book, ''Subtopia'', is a coming-of-age novel that takes place in "south-eastern suburbs in the 1970s, St Kilda in the 1980s and Berlin in the 1990s." He is an Associate Professor of English at

Dartmouth College Dartmouth College (; ) is a private research university in Hanover, New Hampshire. Established in 1769 by Eleazar Wheelock, it is one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution. Although founded to educate Native ...

. He has been called a post-grunge lit writer, a reference to an Australian literary genre from the 2000s which emerged following the 1990s grunge lit genre.

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21st-century Australian novelists Living people Australian male novelists 21st-century Australian male writers Dartmouth College faculty Year of birth missing (living people) {{Australia-writer-stub