Gordon Dahlquist

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Gordon Dahlquist is an American playwright and novelist. A native of the Pacific Northwest, Dahlquist has lived and worked in New York City since 1988. His plays, which include Messalina and Delirium Palace (both Garland Playwriting Award winners), have been performed in New York and Los Angeles. Graduate of Reed College and Columbia University’s School of the Arts. [1] He is an alumnus of New Dramatists. [2]

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Dahlquist's debut novel The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters , a hybrid of fantasy and science fiction set in a period similar to the Victorian era, was published on August 1, 2006, to notable critical acclaim. Dahlquist was reportedly paid an advance of $2,000,000 for The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters, the first of a two-book deal. [3] Its sales were disappointing and it is estimated to have lost its publisher, Bantam, approximately $851,500. [4] The sequel to The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters, The Dark Volume , was published in the UK by Penguin on May 1, 2008, and March 24, 2009 in the United States. A third volume, The Chemickal Marriage was published in July 2012. [5] A young adult novel, The Different Girl was published in 2013. In 2015 he received the James Tait Black Prize for his play Tomorrow Come Today. [6]

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References

  1. Playscripts Author page
  2. "New Dramatists Website". Archived from the original on 2019-03-30. Retrieved 2013-01-26.
  3. Publishers Weekly
  4. Have We Reached the End of Publishing as We Know it?
  5. Dahlquist, G. W. (2012). The Chemickal Marriage. ISBN   978-0670921638.
  6. "Gordon Dahlquist Wins James Tait Black Prize". 26 August 2015.
  7. Webster, Stephen (24 September 2019). "Undermain Theatre's Red Chariot, a Mind-Bending Metaphor, Shows Us Science Fiction at Its Best". Dallas Observer . Retrieved 2019-10-06.