Jeremy Atherton Lin | |
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 Atherton Lin at the Edinburgh International Book Festival 2021 | |
| Occupation | Author and essayist |
| Nationality | American |
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| Notable works | Gay Bar: Why We Went Out |
| Notable awards | National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography |
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Jeremy Atherton Lin is an American essayist known for writing about gay culture [1] [2] [3] and alienation. [4] [5] He is the author of the cultural memoirs Gay Bar [6] [7] and Deep House. [8] [9]
Atherton Lin was raised in Saratoga, California. He attended Lynbrook High School and graduated from the theater department at UCLA. [10] He served as the inaugural Editorial Director of Surface Magazine , which was then based in San Francisco. After moving to the UK, he obtained the MA in Writing at the Royal College of Art in London. [11]
Atherton Lin's debut book Gay Bar: Why We Went Out (2021) won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography. [12] It was included in The New York Times Critics' Top Books of 2021. [13]
In Deep House (2025), Atherton Lin recounts his transnational relationship before the legalization of same-sex marriage or immigration concessions for binational gay couples. [14] The book was listed among the Top 10 Memoirs & Biographies in the Publishers Weekly Spring 2025 Preview. [15]
Atherton Lin's essay ‘The Wrong Daddy’ was a finalist for a National Magazine Award, [16] the first-ever such nomination for a piece published by The Yale Review in its two-centuries-plus history. [17] [18] Atherton Lin profiled non-binary celebrities Sam Smith, Bimini Bon-Boulash and Mae Martin for British editions of GQ , traditionally a men’s magazine. [19] [20] [21] [22] He has published essays in The Paris Review and the Times Literary Supplement , and reviewed new fiction for The Guardian and The Washington Post . He wrote the cover feature on Wolfgang Tillmans for the September 2022 issue of Frieze in advance of the artist’s retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art. [23]
In 2022, Atherton Lin was featured in artist Every Ocean Hughes's durational performance at the Moderna Museet. [24] His sound essays have been broadcast by NTS Radio. [25]
Atherton Lin lives in St Leonards-on-Sea, England and Glendale, California.[ citation needed ]
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