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Andrew Winer (born June 1966) is an American novelist. Recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Fiction and author of the novels The Marriage Artist (2010) and The Color Midnight Made (2003), he writes and speaks about literary, philosophical, and artistic matters. Presently he is completing his third novel and a book on the contemporary relevance of Friedrich Nietzsche’s central philosophical idea, the affirmation of life. Andrew Winer is also an artist. [1]

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Life and work

Winer studied painting at the University of California, Los Angeles, and at the California Institute of the Arts. [2] He had a number of solo and group shows in Los Angeles and New York City, and wrote criticism and reviews for Art Issues before beginning his literary career. [3] [4] In 2000, he received an MFA in Creative Writing at the University of California, Irvine, [2] and, two years later, published his first novel, The Color Midnight Made, an acclaimed national bestseller. [2] [5] [6] [7]

In 2004, he received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for Fiction, [8] and a literary residency at Literar-Mechana [9] in Vienna, Austria, where he started research for his second novel, The Marriage Artist, published in 2010 by Henry Holt and Co., and republished in a hardcover edition by Picador in 2011. [10] [11] [12] [13]

Winer has conducted public conversations with writers such as Colm Toibin, [14] Adam Zagajewski, [15] Geoff Dyer, [16] Akwaeke Emezi, Jane Smiley, [17] Will Self, and Juan Felipe Herrera. He has given talks on artists such as Marsden Hartley and Martin Johnson Heade, and on writers such as Fernando Pessoa and Emil Cioran. His philosophical work is focused on Friedrich Nietzsche. With Nietzsche scholar Maudemarie Clark, he is writing a book on Nietzsche for Oxford University Press. [1]

An Associate Professor of Creative Writing at the University of California, Riverside, [18] Andrew Winer lives and works in Los Angeles, California, together with his wife, the novelist Charmaine Craig  [ de ], and their two daughters. [2]

Bibliography

Novels

Selected essays and stories

Public conversations and talks

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