Laird Hunt(2020)
Laird Hunt is the author of eight novels, a collection of stories, and two book-length translations from French. A new novel, Zorrie, is forthcoming in February. Kind One was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and won the Anisfield-Wolf Award for Fiction, and Neverhome won the Grand Prix de Littérature Américaine and Italy’s Bridge Prize, and was shortlisted for the Prix Femina Étranger. The Evening Road was a Financial Times of London Best Book of 2017 and In the House in the Dark of the Woods was a New York Times Editor’s Choice selection. His reviews and essays have been published in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, the Daily Beast, the Guardian, the Irish Times, and the Los Angeles Times, and his fiction has appeared in many literary journals in the United States and abroad. A former United Nations press officer, he taught for many years in the creative writing PhD program at the University of Denver before joining the Literary Arts program at Brown University.
