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Name
  
Brian Morton


Role
  
Author

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Education
  
Sarah Lawrence College (1978)

Books
  
Starting Out in the Evening, Breakable You

Movies
  
Starting Out in the Evening

Awards
  
Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada

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Nominations
  
PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

Brian Morton (born 1955) is an American author, born in New York City. He graduated from Sarah Lawrence College. He has worked for Dissent, where he became executive editor in 1995. He currently teaches at Sarah Lawrence College, New York University and The Bennington Writing Seminars. Morton grew up in Teaneck, New Jersey.

Contents

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Morton's 1998 novel Starting Out in the Evening was adapted into the 2007 film of the same name.

Fiction

  • The Dylanist (1991)
  • Starting Out in the Evening (1998)
  • A Window Across the River (2003)
  • Breakable You (2006)
  • Florence Gordon (2014)

    • Awards

  • Starting Out in the Evening received the Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Koret Jewish Book Award for Fiction, and the Guggenheim Foundation Award. It was also a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award.
  • A Window Across the River was chosen as a bookclub selection for The Today Show.

    • References

    Brian Morton (American writer) Wikipedia
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