Brian Morton (American writer)

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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 People also search for Andrew Wagner, Fred Parnes, Frank Langella 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.

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

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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.

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