| Chris Adrian |
| Born |
7 November 1970
Washington, D.C. |
| Occupation |
Author
Physician |
| Nationality |
American |
| Genres |
Novel
Short Story |
Chris Adrian (born 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]
Education [edit]
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 is currently in the pediatric hematology/oncology fellowship at UCSF. He is also a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop.
Bibliography [edit]
Novels [edit]
Short story collections [edit]
- A Better Angel (collection, 2008, FSG)[1] 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)
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Adrian, Chris |
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Author, physician |
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1970 |
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