Joshua Ferris

For the politician, see Joshua Beal Ferris.
Joshua Ferris

Ferris in 2008
Born (1974-11-08) November 8, 1974
Danville, Illinois
Occupation novelist
Nationality United States
Website
www.thenwecametotheend.com

Joshua Ferris (born 1974) is an American author best known for his debut 2007 novel Then We Came to the End. The book is a comedy about the American workplace, told in the first-person plural. It takes place in a fictitious Chicago ad agency that is experiencing a downturn at the end of the '90s Internet boom.

Biography

Ferris graduated from the University of Iowa with a BA in English and Philosophy in 1996. He then moved to Chicago and worked in advertising for several years before obtaining an MFA in writing from UC Irvine. His first published story, "Mrs. Blue", appeared in the Iowa Review in 1999. Then We Came to the End has been greeted by positive reviews from The New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, Esquire, and Slate, has been published in twenty-five languages, was a finalist for the National Book Award, and received the 2007 PEN/Hemingway Award.

The New Yorker published a short story written by Ferris, entitled "The Dinner Party", in August 2008. This story made him a nominee for the Shirley Jackson Awards. Another story, entitled "A Night Out", will be published in Tin House's tenth anniversary issue. Other short fiction has appeared in Best New American Voices 2007 and New Stories from the South 2007. His nonfiction has appeared in the anthologies State by State and Heavy Rotation. The New Yorker included him in their 2010 "20 Under 40" list.

Ferris's second novel, The Unnamed, was published in January 2010. Fiametta Rocco,[1] Editor of Books and Arts at The Economist, called it "the best new novel I have read in the past ten years".[2]

After a four year wait, Ferris's third novel, To Rise Again at a Decent Hour, was published in May 2014. The novel was shortlisted for the 2014 Man Booker Prize[3] in the first year that American works of fiction were eligible, and won the 2014 Dylan Thomas Prize.[4][5]

Bibliography

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Novels

Short fiction

Title Year First published Reprinted/collected
The Breeze 2013 *Ferris, Joshua (September 30, 2013). "The breeze". The New Yorker 89 (30): 64–71. Retrieved 2015-03-03. 

Essays and reporting

References

  1. ↑ journalist listing for Fiametta Rocco
  2. ↑ "The best books of the month", The Economist podcast, Feb 20th 2010
  3. ↑ "Man Booker Prize: Howard Jacobson makes shortlist". BBC News. 9 September 2014. Retrieved 9 September 2014.
  4. ↑ "Joshua Ferris wins Dylan Thomas Prize 2014", Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize homepage, November 7th 2014
  5. ↑ Wroe, Nicholas (7 November 2014). "Joshua Ferris wins Dylan Thomas prize". The Guardian. Guardian News and Media. Retrieved 13 November 2014.

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