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 tend toward

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, having mostly realistic characters experience fantastic circumstances. He has written four novels: ''Gob's Grief'', '' The Children's Hospital'', '' The Great Night'', and ''The New World''. In 2008, he published ''A Better Angel'', a collection of short stories. His short fiction has also appeared in ''

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, Ploughshares,

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, The Best American Short Stories,'' and '' Story''. He was one of 11 fiction writers to receive a

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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) *'' The Children's Hospital'' (2006) *'' The Great Night'' (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 Ploughshares) **''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 Tin House) * Uncollected **''You Can Have It'' (1996) (published in

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

) **''Horse and Horseman'' (1998) (published in Zoetrope: All-Story
Available online
**''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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