Chris Adrian
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| Born | 1970 |
| Occupation | Author Medical Doctor |
| Nationality | American |
Chris Adrian (b. 1970) is an American author. Adrian's writing styles in short stories vary a great deal, from modernist realism to pronounced lyrical allegory. His novels both tend toward surrealism, having mostly realistic characters experience fantastic circumstances. He has written two novels: Gob's Grief and The Children's Hospital. His short fiction has appeared in The Paris Review, Zoetrope, Ploughshares, McSweeney's, The New Yorker, The Best American Short Stories, and Story.
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[edit] Education
Adrian completed his Bachelors degree in English from the University of Florida in 1993. He received his M.D. from Eastern Virginia Medical School in 2001. He recently completed a pediatric residency at the University of California, San Francisco, and is currently a student at Harvard Divinity School. He is also a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop.
[edit] Bibliography
[edit] Novels
- Gob's Grief (2001)
- The Children's Hospital (2006)
[edit] Short Stories
- A Better Angel (forthcoming, 2008, FSG)[1]
- 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)
- High Speeds (1997) (published in Story)
- Horse and Horseman (1998) (published in Zoetrope: All-Story)
- The Sum of Our Parts (1999) (published in Ploughshares)
- A Hero of Chickamauga (1999) (published in Story)
- The Glass House (2000) (published in the New Yorker)
- A Child's Book of Sickness and Death (2004) (published in McSweeney's 14)
- The Stepfather (2005) (published in McSweeney's 18)
- A Better Angel (2006) (published in the New Yorker)
- Stab (2006) (published in Zoetrope: All-Story)
- Why Antichrist? (2007) (published in Tin House)
- The Vision of Peter Damien (2007) (published in Zoetrope: All-Story)
- Promise Breaker (2007) (published in Esquire)
