Geoff Dyer

Geoff Dyer (born June 5, 1958) is an author. He lives in London. He is best known as the author of But Beautiful, which won the Somerset Maugham Award, and has been called (by Keith Jarrett, for example) the best book ever written about jazz. Other notable titles are Paris Trance, Out of Sheer Rage (a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award), and Yoga For People Who Can't Be Bothered To Do It. He has contributed articles to The Guardian, The Independent, the New Statesman and Esquire.

It was recently reported on Slate that columnist Jaime Wolf is adapting Paris Trance into a film though no further details have been provided.

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Ways of Telling: Work of John Berger (1987) (see John Berger) ISBN 0-7453-0097-9
The Colour of Memory (1989) ISBN 0-349-10919-2
But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz (1991) ISBN 0-86547-508-3
The Search (1993) ISBN 0-349-11624-5
The Missing of the Somme (1994) ISBN 1-84212-450-1
Out of Sheer Rage: In the Shadow of D.H.Lawrence (1997) ISBN 0-86547-540-7
Paris Trance (1998) ISBN 0-86547-600-4
Anglo-English Attitudes: Essays, Reviews, Misadventures, 1984-98 (1999) ISBN 0-349-11195-2
Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It (2003) ISBN 1-4000-3167-2
The Ongoing Moment (2005) ISBN 0-375-42215-3

What Was True: The Photographs and Notebooks of William Gedney (editor with Margaret Sartor) (2000) ISBN 0-393-04824-1
The Selected Essays of John Berger (editor) (2001) ISBN 0-7475-5419-6
Granta 79: Celebrity (contributor: Hotel Oblivion)
Granta 80: The Group (contributor: On the Roof)
Granta 91: Wish You Were Here (Contributor: White Sands)
Give Our Regards To The Atomsmashers! (Contributor: Comics In A Man's Life)
In Borges, a Surfeit of Riches, a review of Selected Poems by Jorge Luis Borges in the San Francisco Chronicle
Space Is the Place article by Geoff Dyer at The Nation.
Albert Camus article by Geoff Dyer from Opencity#9 ISBN 1-890447-20-X
The Road Less Familiar, a memoir about being a "scholarly gatecrasher" in The Guardian