Stephen Markley  | |
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|   Markley at the 2023 Texas Book Festival  | |
| Born | 2 October 1983  Mount Vernon, Ohio, U.S.  | 
| Occupation | Writer | 
Stephen Markley (born October 2, 1983 in Mount Vernon, Ohio [1] ) is an American journalist and author, whose work includes memoirs and novels. [2] He was born in Ohio and is a graduate of Miami University and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. [2] [3]
Markley's first novel Ohio (2018) takes place during a single evening. [4] His second novel The Deluge (2023) is a dystopian epic about climate change spanning the years 2013 through to the 2030s. [4] [5] The New York Times review said of it that the "dystopia is realistic and nuanced, grim but playful, setting Markley’s book apart from the tsunami of recent climate-change literature." [6] The New York Times named The Deluge one of the 100 Notable Books of 2023. [7]
Markley is reportedly working on an adaptation of Ohio for an HBO series to be produced by Sam Levinson. [8]
Source: WorldCat [9]