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Stephen Markley
Markley at the 2023 Texas Book Festival
Markley at the 2023 Texas Book Festival
Born1983 (age 40–41)
Mount Vernon, Ohio
OccupationWriter
NationalityAmerican

Stephen Markley (b. 1983 in Mount Vernon, Ohio[1]) is an American journalist and author, whose work includes memoirs and novels.[2] His first novel Ohio takes place during a single evening.[3] His second novel The Deluge is a dystopian epic about climate change spanning the years 2013 through to the 2030s.[3][4] The New York Times review said of it that the "dystopia is realistic and nuanced, grim but playful, setting Markley’s book apart from the tsunami of recent climate-change literature."[5] The New York Times named The Deluge one of the 100 Notable Books of 2023.[6]

Personal life

Stephen Markley was born in Ohio and is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop.[2]

Books

Source: WorldCat[7]

Nonfiction

  • Publish This Book (2010)
  • The Great Dysmorphia (2012)
  • Tales of Iceland (2013)

Fiction

  • Ohio (2018)
  • The Deluge (2023)

References

  1. ^ "Stephen Markley". Contemporary Authors. Gale. 2021. Retrieved October 19, 2023.
  2. ^ a b "Stephen Markley Biography at Simon & Schuster". Archived from the original on January 4, 2023. Retrieved January 13, 2023.
  3. ^ a b McRobert, Neil (January 11, 2023). "Stephen Markley Is Smiling Through the Apocalypse". Esquire. Retrieved March 11, 2023.
  4. ^ McRobert, Neil (March 2, 2023). "The Deluge by Stephen Markley review – apocalypse in slow motion". The Guardian. Retrieved March 11, 2023.
  5. ^ Cain, Hamilton (January 10, 2023). "A New Novel Confronts the Scale and Gravity of Climate Change". New York Times. Retrieved October 19, 2023.
  6. ^ Staff, The New York Times Books (November 21, 2023). "100 Notable Books of 2023". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved November 26, 2023.
  7. ^ "Author: Stephen Markley". WorldCat. Retrieved March 11, 2023.