Chris Adrian

Chris Adrian (born 1970) is an American author. Adrian's writing styles in short stories vary greatly; from modernist realism to pronounced lyrical allegory. His novels both tend toward surrealism, having mostly realistic characters experience fantastic circumstances. He has written three novels: Gob's Grief, The Children's Hospital, and The Great Night. In 2008, he published A Better Angel, a collection of short stories. His short fiction has also appeared in The Paris Review, Zoetrope, Ploughshares,^[1] McSweeney's, The New Yorker, The Best American Short Stories, and Story. He was one of 11 fiction writers to receive a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2009.^[2] He lives in San Francisco.^[3]

Education

Adrian completed his Bachelor's degree in English from the University of Florida in 1993. He received his M.D. from Eastern Virginia Medical School in 2001. He completed a pediatric residency at the University of California, San Francisco, was a student at Harvard Divinity School, and a fellow of pediatric hematology/oncology at UCSF in 2011. He is also a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Currently, Adrian serves as the Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Columbia University Medical Center.

Bibliography

Novels

• Gob's Grief (2001)
• The Children's Hospital (2006)
• The Great Night (2011)

Short story collections

• A Better Angel (collection, 2008, FSG) includes:
  • High Speeds (1997) (originally published in Story)
  • The Sum of Our Parts (1999) (originally published in Ploughshares)
  • Stab (2006) (originally published in Zoetrope: All-Story)
  • The Vision of Peter Damien (2007) (originally published in Zoetrope: All-Story)
  • A Better Angel (2006) (originally published in the New Yorker)
  • The Changeling (2007) (originally published in Esquire as "Promise Breaker")
  • A Hero of Chickamauga (1999) (originally published in Story)
  • A Child's Book of Sickness and Death (2004) (originally published in McSweeney's 14)
  • Why Antichrist? (2007) (originally published in Tin House)

• Uncollected
  • 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)
  • Horse and Horseman (1998) (published in Zoetrope: All-Story) Available online
  • The Glass House (2000) (published in The New Yorker)
  • The Stepfather (2005) (published in McSweeney's 18)
  • A Tiny Feast (2009) (published in The New Yorker)
  • The Black Square (2009) (published in McSweeney's 32)
  • The Warm Fuzzies (2010) (published in The New Yorker)
  • Grand Rounds (2012) (published in Granta 120)

References

External links

• Chris Adrian at the Internet Book List
• Info on Adrian