Ian Frazier

Ian Frazier ( born 1951 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American writer with a focus on the humorous area.

He is known especially for his 1989 published nonfiction Great Plains, his bestselling book Travels in Siberia (2010) and as a writer for The New Yorker.

Life

Frazier grew up in Hudson ( Ohio). His father worked as a chemist for Standard Oil of Ohio. The mother worked as an amateur actress in regional theater stages ..

Frazier attended Western Reserve Academy in Hudson, later Harvard University, where he was part of the editorial staff of the satirical magazine Harvard Lampoon. He graduated in 1973.

After he had left the territory of the Great Plains, Frazier lived in Brooklyn, New York and Montclair (New Jersey) with his wife, the novelist Jacqueline Carey and their common children Cora and Thomas.

Frazier's most autobiographical book is Family.

Career as a writer

After studying Frazier worked briefly as a writer for the men's magazine Oui in Chicago. The following year he moved to New York and joined the staff of The New Yorker magazine. He wrote documentaries, skits and contributions for our The Talk of the Town. In 1982, Frazier moved to Montana. He collected material there, anecdotes and impressions, which he later in his book Great Plains, published in 1989, processed. In the late nineties, he returned back again to this region to do research for his book On the Rez, which dealt with the lives of Indians living there. In his non-fiction books such as Great Plains, Family and On the Rez Frazier joins the story in the first person with thorough investigations of objects such as the history of the United States, the Indians, the fishing and other outdoor activities.

Frazier is one of the best recent exponents of the sober New York - style. As an example of this style, the closing lines of the 1985 published essays Bear News may serve, which is reprinted in the 1987 collection published Nobody Better, Better than Nobody.

The critic of The New York Times James Gorman described Frazier's 1996 published collection of humorous texts Coyote v. Acme as those that can bring the reader irresistible laugh. ( sued in the cover story of Wile E. Coyote the manufacturer of various objects raktetengetriebenen ) Gorman ranks Frazier first published in 1986 collection of stories titled Dating Your Mom, "one of the best collections of humorous texts at all " one.

Works

Humor

  • Dating Your Mom Picador, New York 1986.
  • Coyote v. Acme. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York 1996, ISBN 0-374-13033-7.
  • Lamentations of the Father. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York 2008, ISBN 0-374-28162-9.

As the editor of an anthology

  • Humor Me: An Anthology of Funny Contemporary Writing ( Plus Some Great Old Stuff, Too). Ecco, New York 2010.

Collections of essays

  • Nobody Better, Better than Nobody. Farar, Straus & Giroux, 1987, New York, ISBN 0-374-22310-6.
  • The Fish 's Eye. , 2002.

Translation

  • Daniil Kharms: It Happened Like This. translated by Ian Frazier (1998)

Non-fiction

  • Great Plains. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, 1989, ISBN 0-374-21723-8.
  • Family. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York 1994, ISBN 0-374-15319-1.
  • On the Rez Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York 2000, ISBN 0-374-22638-5.
  • Gone to New York: Adventures in the City. Granta, London 2006, ISBN 1-86207-820-3.
  • Travels in Siberia. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York 2010, ISBN 978-0-374-27872-4.

Article

  • Our Local Correspondents: The Rap. In: The New Yorker. 84, No. 40, December 8, 2008, pp. 72-81. ( About Derrick Parker, a British footballer )
  • A Reporter At Large, Travels in Siberia - I: The Ultimate Road Trip. In: The New Yorker. August 3, 2009, pp. 36-49. ( About Siberia)

Awards

In 1997, Frazier the Thurber Prize for American Humor for Coyote vs. ACME.

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