Nathaniel Rich | |
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Born | New York City, U.S. | March 5, 1980
Occupation | Writer |
Language | English |
Alma mater | Yale University |
Period | 2005–present |
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Spouse | Meredith Angelson (m. 2014) |
Children | 1 |
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Nathaniel Rich (born March 5, 1980) is an American novelist and essayist. Rich is the author of several books, both fiction and non-fiction. He was an editor for The Paris Review , and has contributed articles and essays to several major magazines, including The Atlantic , Harper's Magazine , and The New York Review of Books . [1]
Rich is the son of Frank Rich, New York Magazine writer and former New York Times columnist, and Gail Winston, executive editor at HarperCollins. His youngest brother is writer Simon Rich. Rich attended Dalton School and is an alumnus of Yale University, where he studied literature. [2]
After graduating, he worked on the editorial staff of The New York Review of Books . [2]
Rich moved to San Francisco to write San Francisco Noir, exploring how the city has been portrayed in film noir. The San Francisco Chronicle ranked it as one of the best books of 2005. [3] That year he was hired as an editor by The Paris Review . [4] Since then he has written and published both non-fiction and fiction books.
In 2008, he published his debut novel The Mayor's Tongue, described by Carolyn See in The Washington Post as a "playful, highly intellectual novel about serious subjects – the failure of language, for one, and how we cope with that failure in order to keep ourselves sane". [5] [6]
In 2013 he published Odds Against Tomorrow, which NPR's Alan Cheuse described as a "brilliantly conceived and extremely well-executed novel ... a knockout of a book." [7] Cathleen Schine wrote, in the New York Review of Books , "Let's just, right away, recognize how prescient this charming, terrifying, comic novel of apocalyptic manners is ... Rich is a gifted caricaturist and a gifted apocalyptist. His descriptions of the vagaries of both nature and human nature are stark, fresh, and convincing, full of surprise and recognition as both good comedy and good terror must be." [8]
In 2018 he published the novel King Zeno.
Rich lives in New Orleans with his wife, Meredith Angelson, and their son. [9]
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