Evan Dara is an American postmodern novelist. In 1995, his first novel The Lost Scrapbook won the 12th Annual FC/2 Illinois State University National Fiction Competition judged by William T. Vollmann.[1] Evan Dara currently lives in Paris.
Praise for THE LOST SCRAPBOOK
“The most formidable political novel of the 1990s.” —Jeremy Green, Late Postmodernism: American Fiction at the Millennium
“Monumental, cunning, heartfelt and unforgiving... Dara shows how a novel can be experimental, yet moral, rule-breaking but emotional, and post-humanist while remaining deeply human. A vast accomplishment.” —Richard Powers
“This first novel suggests the ambitious debuts of Joseph McElroy (A Smuggler’s Bible) and Thomas Pynchon (V.), but author Evan Dara pushes the bar back upward to the height of William Gaddis’ The Recognitions… It takes some work to look back at The Lost Scrapbook and say, ‘Aha, so that’s how all those parts fi t together,’ and then ‘Aaah,’ which signifies satisfaction or, with a different spelling, awe.” —The Washington Post
“A radiant, innovative work filled with engaging characters…creating a complex world in which issues of personal liberty, private politics and public responsibility come into play.” —Time Out New York
Dara's second novel The Easy Chain was published by Aurora Publishers in 2008.