John Wray

John Wray was born in Washington, DC in 1971 and raised in Buffalo, New York. His father is American and his mother is Austrian, and he himself is a citizen of both countries. His first novel, The Right Hand of Sleep, was published in 2001 and won a Whiting Writers' Award. His second, Canaan's Tongue, was published by Knopf in 2005. His latest novel, Lowboy, will be published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in 2009. In 2007 he was selected by Granta Magazine as one the twenty best American novelists under thirty-five. He currently lives in Brooklyn.

Bibliography:

Lowboy (2009)

Canaan's Tongue (2005)

The Right Hand of Sleep (2001)

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Beatrice interview