Danielle Trussoni

Danielle Trussoni
Author Photo by Hadrien Royo
Born	La Crosse, Wisconsin
Occupation	Novelist
Language	English
Nationality	American
Education	MFA in Fiction, Iowa Writers' Workshop
Alma mater	University of Iowa
Website
www.danielletrussoni.com

Danielle Anne Trussoni is an American writer. Her work includes four books: Falling Through the Earth (2006); Angelology (2010), Angelopolis (2012) and a forthcoming memoir The Fortress (2015). In addition to being published in The New York Times Book Review, The Guardian, The New York Times Magazine and Tin House, her writings have been widely anthologized.

Background

Trussoni was born in La Crosse, Wisconsin. She graduated from the University of Wisconsin–Madison summa cum laude with a BA in History and English in 1996 and from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she received an MFA in Fiction Writing in 2002. She has lived for extended periods in Japan, Bulgaria, England and France.

Trussoni now lives in New York City and France. She was married to the writer Nikolai Grozni in 2002. The couple was featured in Season 2 of This American Life (TV).^[1] They divorced in 2012. She has two children.

Writing

Her work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Telegraph Magazine, The New York Times Book Review and Tin House, among other publications.

Falling Through the Earth: A Memoir, which dealt with her efforts to understand her father and his experiences as a tunnel rat in the War in Vietnam, was chosen by The New York Times as one of the Ten Best Books of 2006.Falling Through the Earth was recipient of the Michener-Copernicus Society of America Award, Elle Magazine’s Reader’s Choice Award for April 2006 and was chosen as a Book Sense Pick for March 2006.

Her novel Angelology, (Viking Press, 2010) received a great deal of attention prior to publication. Seven publishing houses vied for the publishing rights. Angelology went on to become a New York Times Bestseller^[2] and has been translated into thirty-two languages. Three motion picture companies, Columbia, Universal, and Sony bid for the film rights, which went to Sony.

Bibliography

• Falling Through The Earth, Henry Holt and Company, 2006, ISBN 0-8050-7732-4.
• Angelology, Viking Press, 2010, ISBN 978-0-385-66861-3.
• Angelopolis, Viking Press, 2013, ISBN 978-0-670-02554-1

Reviews

• New York Times: Sunday Book Review, Cracked, Helene Wecker, May 03, 2013
• NPR, Angelology: A Cross-Bred Monster Of A Mystery, Jane Ciabattari, March 11, 2010
• TIME, Angelology: Wings of Desire, Lev Grossman, March 15, 2010
• New York Times: Sunday Book Review, Fallen Angels, Susann Cokal, March 3, 2010
• New York Times: Books, The War at Home, Kathryn Harrison, March 12, 2006
• USA Today, 'Angelology': A heaven-sent supernatural thrill ride, Carol Memmott, March 12, 2010
• ELLE Book Release: Angelology, Natasha Clark, March 12, 2010

References

• Harrison, Kathryn (March 12, 2006). "The War at Home". The New York Times.
• Falkenstein, Linda (June 13, 2008), Novelist Rae Meadows spills the beans on her latest book; plus a look at more local works. Isthmus Publishing Company, Inc.,

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Danielle Trussoni.

• Author's Website
• Danielle Trussoni Angelology Interview
• Writing Workshops
• Harrison, Kathryn (March 12, 2006). "The War at Home". The New York Times.
• Falling Through the Earth Top 10 Book of 2006
• ANGELOLOGY sale
• Susan Henderson's The Nervous Breakdown interview