Samantha Hunt

Samantha Hunt (b. 1971 New York) is an American novelist, essayist and short-story writer. She is the author of the novel The Seas, published by MacAdam/Cage[1] and the novel The Invention of Everything Else,[2] published by Houghton Mifflin. Hunt won the Bard Fiction Prize, the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 award[3] and was a finalist for the Orange Prize.[4]

Career

Hunt's short stories and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, "New York Times Magazine", McSweeney's, A Public Space, Cabinet, Esquire, The Believer, Blind Spot, Harper’s Bazaar, the Village Voice, Seed Magazine, Tin House, New York Magazine, on the radio program This American Life and in a number of anthologies including Trampoline edited by Kelly Link. Hunt’s play, The Difference Engine, a story about the life of Charles Babbage, was produced by the Theater of a Two-Headed Calf.

Books

• The Invention of Everything Else (2008)
• The Seas (2004)
• My Inventions and Other Writings by Nikola Tesla and Samantha Hunt (introduction - 2011)

Online Texts

Fiction

• The Yellow - a short story
• Three Days - a short story
• Reading at Hammer Museumwith Ben Marcus
• Reading at Google

Essays

• Terrible Twins
• This American Life

Interviews

• Interview at Bookslut
• Interview on the Bat Segundo Show

References

  1. ↑ Lyons, Stephen (19 December 2004). "A 'mermaid holds the key to a beloved sailors fate". San Francisco Chronicle.
  2. ↑ Thomas, Louisa (23 March 2008). "At The Hotel New Yorker". New York Times.
  3. ↑ "KQED, Public Media for Northern California". http://www.kqed.org/arts/profile/index.jsp?essid=22393.
  4. ↑ Itzkoff, David (21 April 2009). "Orange Prize Finalists Announced". New York Times.