Chris Adrian

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Chris Adrian
Born 1970
Occupation Author
Medical Doctor
Nationality American

Chris Adrian (b. 1970) is an American author. Adrian's writing styles in short stories vary a great deal, from modernist realism to pronounced lyrical allegory. His novels both tend toward surrealism, having mostly realistic characters experience fantastic circumstances. He has written two novels: Gob's Grief and The Children's Hospital. His short fiction has appeared in The Paris Review, Zoetrope, Ploughshares, McSweeney's, The New Yorker, The Best American Short Stories, and Story.

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[edit] Education

Adrian completed his Bachelors degree in English from the University of Florida in 1993. He received his M.D. from Eastern Virginia Medical School in 2001. He recently completed a pediatric residency at the University of California, San Francisco, and is currently a student at Harvard Divinity School. He is also a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop.

[edit] Bibliography

[edit] Novels

  • Gob's Grief (2001)
  • The Children's Hospital (2006)

[edit] Short Stories

  • A Better Angel (forthcoming, 2008, FSG)[1]
  • You Can Have It (1996) (published in The Paris Review 141)
  • Grief (1997) (published in Story)
  • Every Night for a Thousand Years (1997) (published in the New Yorker)
  • High Speeds (1997) (published in Story)
  • Horse and Horseman (1998) (published in Zoetrope: All-Story)
  • The Sum of Our Parts (1999) (published in Ploughshares)
  • A Hero of Chickamauga (1999) (published in Story)
  • The Glass House (2000) (published in the New Yorker)
  • A Child's Book of Sickness and Death (2004) (published in McSweeney's 14)
  • The Stepfather (2005) (published in McSweeney's 18)
  • A Better Angel (2006) (published in the New Yorker)
  • Stab (2006) (published in Zoetrope: All-Story)
  • Why Antichrist? (2007) (published in Tin House)
  • The Vision of Peter Damien (2007) (published in Zoetrope: All-Story)
  • Promise Breaker (2007) (published in Esquire)

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