Chris Adrian
Born (1970-11-07) November 7, 1970
Washington, D.C., U.S.
OccupationAuthor
Physician
NationalityAmerican
GenreNovel
Short Story

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, The Children's Hospital, and The Great Night. In 2008, he published A Better Angel, a collection of short stories. His short fiction has also appeared in The Paris Review, Zoetrope, Ploughshares,[1] McSweeney's, The New Yorker, The Best American Short Stories, and Story. He was one of 11 fiction writers to receive a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2009.[2] He lives in San Francisco.[3]

Education

Adrian completed his bachelor's degree in English from the University of Florida in 1993. He received his M.D. from Eastern Virginia Medical School in 2001. He completed a pediatric residency at the University of California, San Francisco, was a student at Harvard Divinity School, and a fellow of pediatric hematology/oncology at UCSF in 2011. He is also a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Currently, Adrian serves as the Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Columbia University Medical Center.[4]

Bibliography

Novels

Short story collections

  • A Better Angel (collection, 2008, FSG) 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 as "Promise Breaker")
    • A Hero of Chickamauga (1999) (originally published in Story)
    • A Child's Book of Sickness and Death (2004) (originally published in McSweeney's 14)
    • Why Antichrist? (2007) (originally published in Tin House)
  • Uncollected

References

  1. ↑ "Author Details". Pshares.org. Retrieved December 4, 2013.
  2. ↑ "Guggenheim Fellowships for 2009 Announced". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved April 21, 2009.
  3. ↑ "Chris Adrian". MacMillian. Retrieved February 24, 2021.
  4. ↑ Rauch, Catharine (July 22, 2010). "A Conversation with UCSF Fellow Chris Adrian, a New Yorker Writer to Watch". UCSF. Retrieved February 24, 2021.
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