David Gates (author)

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David Gates (born January 8, 1947) is an American journalist and novelist. His first novel, Jernigan (1991), about a dysfunctional one-parent family, was a Pulitzer Prize finalist. This was followed by a second novel, Preston Falls (1998), and a short story collection, The Wonders of the Invisible World (1999). He has published short stories in Esquire magazine and Ploughshares, GQ, Grand Street, and TriQuarterly.

He is presently a senior writer in the Arts section at Newsweek magazine, specializing in articles on books and music.

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