Nick McDonell
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| Born | February 18, 1984 Manhattan, New York, United States |
| Occupation | author |
Nick McDonell (born in Manhattan on February 18, 1984 as Robert Nicholas McDonell) is an American writer. He attended to Riverdale Country School and graduated from Harvard College in January 2007.
He wrote the novel Twelve in 2002, at age 17. The subject of the novel is violence and drug use among wealthy Manhattan teenagers. The publication of McDonell's novel at such a young age was the subject of many articles in high-profile publications such The New Yorker and Entertainment Weekly.
"Twelve" was compared to Jay McInerney's debut novel "Bright Lights, Big City" and Bret Easton Ellis' "Less Than Zero". Michiko Kakutani from The New York Times called it "as fast as speed, as relentless as acid."
[edit] Accusations of Nepotism
McDonell's father, Terry "Big Sky" McDonell, is the managing editor of Sports Illustrated magazine, and was a friend of Hunter S. Thompson; they met because they both worked at Rolling Stone magazine. McDonell got a quote for a cover from Joan Didion and Richard Price, who are also family's friends, as well as P. J. O'Rourke and Jay McInerney. Nick McDonnell's godfather is Morgan Entrekin, who owns Grove/Atlantic Inc., the parent company for Twelve's publisher, Grove Press.
[edit] The Third Brother
Nick McDonell's second novel, The Third Brother (ISBN 0-8021-1802-X), was released in September of 2005, and tells the story of a 19-year-old Harvard student who is deeply affected by time he spends in Bangkok working as an intern reporter. McDonell himself interned for Time Asia, under then managing editor Karl Taro Greenfeld--who worked for his father at Sports Illustrated.
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