Evan Mandery

Evan Mandery
Evan Mandery in 2013
Born	1967 Brooklyn, New York
Occupation	Author Professor
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Harvard College Harvard Law School
Genre	Humor, Literature, Fantasy & Science Fiction
Spouse	Valli Rajah-Mandery
Children	3
Website
www.evanmandery.com

Evan Mandery, born in Brooklyn, New York in 1967, is an author and professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. He lives in Manhasset, New York.

Career

Mandery graduated from Harvard College in 1989 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Social Studies. Later he graduate from Harvard Law School as Juris Doctor in 1992.He is an associate professor and chairperson of the criminal justice department, John Jay College of Criminal Justice. His wife, Valli Rajah-Mandery, is a sociologist, and they have three children. His first book was The Campaign: Rudy Giuliani, Ruth Messinger, Al Sharpton, and the Race to Be Mayor of New York City. He was influenced by the writings of Kurt Vonnegut and Douglas Adams.

Works of Fiction

Dreaming of Gwen Stefani

Mandery's first novel Dreaming of Gwen Stefani was published in 2007. A review about the book was available on Booklist magazine. The novel deals with mathematical genius Mortimer Taylor Coleridge, a New York City hot-dog vendor, who falls in love with Gwen Stefani.

First Contact (Or It's Later Than You Think)

Mandery's second novel, First Contact, Or, It's Later Than You Think, was published by HarperCollins in January, 2010. It is a story of a hyper-intelligent, Woody-Allen, loving alien species and a dim-witted President, who is mistrustful of the aliens without basis. The book was generally well received. The book got good feedback from magazines like Booklist, Publisher's Weekly and Library Journal. It was also reviewed in printed edition of the newspaper Winnipeg Free Press.

Q

Q was published by HarperCollins in August, 2011. It is a story based on time travel, where the unnamed protagonist is visited by his future self and advised not to marry the love of his life, Q and then the story continues. The novel received reviews on newspapers like The New York Times, Financial Times, Boise Weekly and Sacramento News. The book also received reviews from TLS and Booklist magazine and Io9 blog.

Q was published in the UK in July 2012 and thereafter translated into Italian (under the title Q una storia d'amore), Polish (as Q. Ponadczasowa historia miłosna), and Czech (as Má věčná Q).

In November, 2011, Columbia Pictures optioned the movie rights to Q. David Gordon Green was hired to write the screenplay and direct.

Works of Non-Fiction

Mandery began as a non-fiction writer and his first book The Campaign: Rudy Giuliani, Ruth Messinger, Al Sharpton and the Race to be Mayor of New York was published in 1999 by Westview Press. His academic writing focuses on capital punishment and he has published a book on the subject named Capital Punishment in America: A Balanced Examination.

Publications

Books

• The campaign: Rudy Giuliani, Ruth Messenger, Al Sharpton, and the race to be mayor of New York City, 1999, ISBN 978-0813366982
• Eyes on City Hall: A Young Man's Education in New York Political Warfare, 2001, ISBN 978-0813398150
• Dreaming of Gwen Stefani, 2007, ISBN 978-0977197262
• First Contact: Or, It's Later Than You Think, 2010, ISBN 978-0061749773
• Capital Punishment: A Balanced Examination, 2011, ISBN 978-1449605988
• Q: A Novel, 2011, ISBN 978-0062098832
• Q: A Love Story, 2011, ISBN 978-0007454280
• Q: A Love Story, 2012, ISBN 978-0007447602
• Q una storia d'amore, 2012, ISBN 978-8854505438
• Q Ponadczasowa historia milosna, 2012, ISBN 978-8363248062
• Má věčná Q, 2012, ISBN 978-8073845704

Other Writings

• Qualified Immunity or Absolute Immunity? The Moral Hazards of Extending Qualified Immunity to Lower-Level Public Officials, in Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, 1994
• In Defense of Specific Proportionality Review, in Albany Law Review, 2002
• Federalism and the Death Penalty, in Albany Law Review, 2003
• Commentary: Mercy and Contrition, in Criminal Law Bulletin, 2006
• Testing the Marshall Hypothesis and its Antithesis: The Effect of Biased Information on Death-Penalty Opinion, in Criminal Justice Studies: A Critical Journal of Crime, Law & Society, 2010
• The Expungement Myth (Co-author), in Albany Law Review, 2011-2012

Poker

Mandery is a successful amateur poker player. He took second place in a preliminary event of the 2005 U.S. Poker Championship, winning $21,280. He has career earnings of approximately $57000.

External links

• Official Website