Joshua Ferris

Joshua Ferris ( born November 8, 1974 in Illinois) is an American writer, in 2007, a bestseller with his debut novel, Then We Came to the End.

Life

Ferris grew up in Florida, Key West. At eight, he wrote adventure stories, as well as parodies of Hitchcock works, he described in an interview with the Germany radio culture of his youth. He received his Bachelor of Arts in English and Philosophy in 1996 at the University of Iowa. He moved to Chicago and worked for several years in advertising agencies, before deciding, in addition a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing at the University of California, Irvine to acquire.

His first published short story, Mrs. Blue, was published in 1999 in the journal Iowa Review. His first novel, Then We Came to the End received positive reviews in the prestigious media The New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, Esquire and Slate, has been translated into 25 languages. The book came in 2007 in the short-listed for the National Book Award and won the PEN Hemingway Foundation Award.

Then We Came to the End is a high- comedy - satire about the American working life of the middle class and is told in the first person plural. It is set in a fictitious Chicago ad agency that at the beginning of the noughties - year experienced its decline after the bursting of the Internet bubble.

The New Yorker published his short story The Dinner Party in August 2008. More stories appeared in the anthologies Best New American Voices 2007, and New Stories from the South 2007. Essay by Ferris came out among the anthology titles, State by State and Heavy Rotation. The influential New Yorker magazine took its name in 2010 to their authors ranking " 20 under 40" on.

His second novel, The Unnamed came out in the U.S. in January 2010. Fiammetta Rocco, the literature part - chief of The Economist magazine, called it one of the best books of the last ten years.

Joshua Ferris lives in New York City Brooklyn and prefers to work in his second home in the nearby town of Hudson.

Works

  • The Unnamed (2010) in German: Into the open from the English by Marcus Ingendaay, Luchterhand -Verlag, Munich 2010 352 pp. ISBN 978-3-630-87297-1.
  • In German: We were immortal from the English by Frank Wegner, Random House, Reinbek 2007 442 p.
  • Mrs. Blue, Iowa Review 29.2 (Fall 1999)
  • Ghost Town Choir, Prairie Schooner 80.3 (Fall 2006)
  • It Would Be Life - Phoebe (2007)
  • Uncertainty (2007)
  • More Afraid of You, Granta 101 (Spring 2008)
  • The Dinner Party (2008)
  • The valetudinarian (2009)
  • A Night Out, Tin House 40 (10 year anniversary edition )
  • The Pilot, The New Yorker, 14 and June 21, 2010
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