Ed Park | |
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 Park at the 2023 Texas Book Festival | |
| Born | 1970 (age 53–54) Buffalo, New York, U.S. |
| Education | Yale University (BA) Columbia University (MFA) |
| Notable work | Same Bed Different Dreams Personal Days |
| Website | Official website |
Ed Park (born 1970 in Buffalo, New York) is an American journalist and novelist. He was the executive editor of Penguin Press.
In May 2008, Park's debut novel Personal Days was published by Random House. It was a finalist for that year's Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award, the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize (then known as the John Sargent Sr. First Novel Prize), and the Asian American Literary Award. It was also named one of the ten best fiction books of the year by Time . [1]
Park's second novel, Same Bed Different Dreams, was published by Random House [2] in November 2023. Publishers Weekly named it a Top 10 Book of the Year, [3] and The New York Times said, "It’s a challenging read and yet wonderfully suspenseful, like watching a circus performer juggle a dozen torches…A sprawling, stunning novel.” [4] It won the 2023 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction. [5] On May 6, 2024, Same Bed Different Dreams was announced as a 2024 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Fiction. [6]
Park was a founding editor of the magazine The Believer in 2003, and has been an editor at the Poetry Foundation, as well as the editor of the Village Voice 's Literary Supplement. [1] Beginning in August 2006, soon after he lost his job at the Village Voice, he circulated a PDF-only newsletter called "The New-York Ghost". [7] From 2007 to 2011, he wrote the science-fiction column "Astral Weeks" for the Los Angeles Times . [1] His stories, articles, and humor have appeared in The New Yorker. [8] From 2018 to 2021, he wrote the graphic novel column for the New York Times Book Review. [9]
In 2011, he was hired by Amazon Publishing as a senior editor, where he was in charge of the company's literary side. [10] After hiring him, Amazon later gave him his own imprint, Little A. He earned Amazon a major literary prize while working there. [11] He has written introductions to several books, including Anthony Powell's Afternoon Men, [12] and co-edited three anthologies: Read Hard and Read Harder (both with Heidi Julavits), and Buffalo Noir (with Brigid Hughes). [13] In 2014, it was reported that he had been hired by Penguin Press as executive editor. [11] He has taught in the graduate writing program at Columbia University. [14] He currently teaches at Princeton University. [15]
Park received his English degree from Yale University and his M.F.A. from Columbia University. As of 2014, he lives on Manhattan's Upper West Side with his wife and two sons. [11]
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