Gary Braver
Gary Braver is the pen name of Gary Goshgarian, an award-winning English professor at Northeastern University (Boston), where he teaches popular courses in Science Fiction, Modern Bestsellers, Horror Fiction, and Fiction Writing.
He is also the editor of six college writing textbooks with Longman Publishers as well as editor of the short fiction horror anthology Horrorscape (1993).
Under his own name and pen name, Gary Braver, he is an award-winning and bestselling author of eight critically acclaimed science thrillers. Under Gary Goshgarian--his first three, Atlantis Fire, Rough Beast, and The Stone Circle.
Under Gary Braver: Elixir (2000); Gray Matter (2002); Flashback (the only thriller to have won a Massachusetts Book Award for fiction from the Massachusetts Center for the Book (2006); and Skin Deep (2008). Braver’s most recent novel Tunnel Vision (2010) centers on a Boston graduate student who gets involved in a secret project involving near-death experience. The book was named one of the “best books of the summer” by WGBH’s “The Emily Rooney Show” and was profiled on WCVB TV’s “Chronicle.” Ray Bradbury praised the book as “a wonderfully frightening and insightful tale.”
Gary Braver’s books have been celebrated for their high-concept, cutting-edge biomedical technology, careful craftsmanship, well-rounded characters, and page-turning momentum. They have been translated into 7 languages, and three have been optioned for movies. He is the only writer to have three books simultaneously listed on the top-10 highest customer-rated thrillers on Amazon.com. NY Times bestselling author, Tess Gerritsen, names Gary Braver as “one of the best thriller writers in America.”
Before teaching at Northeastern, he was a physicist at Raytheon Co. He has a degree in physics from Worcester Polytechnic Institute, an M.A. in English from the University of Connecticut, and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
His fiction and nonfiction pieces have appeared in The Boston Globe, The New York Times, Writer Magazine, The Christian Science Monitor, and the award-winning Thriller 2 Anthology.
Gary Braver’s official website is www.garybraver.com.
[edit] External links
- Official Site at www.garybraver.com.
- Faculty Profile at Northeastern University website.
- Reading and Discussion Guide for Flashback produced by the Massachusetts Centre for the Book.
- Review of Flashback by Roberta O'Hara at the Book Reporter website.
- Review of Gray Matter by Roberta O'Hara at the Book Reporter website.
- Excerpt from Gray Matter in the journal Transformations.
- Interview and biography by Joan Killough-Miller in the journal Transformations.
- Interview regarding Gray Matter at the Book Reporter website.
- Interview regarding Elixir, formerly at the website of the zine Wigglefish. The zine is now defunct, but the interview has been archived at Braver's official site.
