Occupation Author
Professor Name Evan Mandery Children 3 | Spouse Valli Rajah-Mandery Nationality American Role Author | |
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Alma mater Harvard College
Harvard Law School Genre Humor, Literature,
Fantasy & Science Fiction Education Harvard College, Harvard Law School Books Dreaming of Gwen Stefani, The campaign, Q: A Novel, Q: A Love Story, First Contact: Or - It's Lat | ||
Book talk evan mandery a wild justice
Evan Mandery (born 1967) is an American author and criminal justice academic at John Jay College of Criminal Justice.
Contents
- Book talk evan mandery a wild justice
- Author evan mandery mvi 2101 avi
- Career
- Dreaming of Gwen Stefani
- First Contact Or Its Later Than You Think
- Q
- Works of Non Fiction
- Books
- References
Author evan mandery mvi 2101 avi
Career
Mandery graduated from Harvard College in 1989 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Social Studies. Later he graduated from Harvard Law School as Juris Doctor in 1992. He is a professor and chairperson of the criminal justice department, John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Mandery lives in Manhasset, New York. His wife, Valli Rajah-Mandery, is a sociologist, and they have three children. He was influenced by the writings of Kurt Vonnegut and Douglas Adams. Mandery is also an amateur poker player.
Dreaming of Gwen Stefani
Mandery's first novel Dreaming of Gwen Stefani was published in 2007. A review about the book was available on Booklist magazine. The novel deals with a mathematical genius and hot-dog vendor, who falls in love with Gwen Stefani.
First Contact (Or It's Later Than You Think)
Mandery's second novel, First Contact, Or, It's Later Than You Think, was published by HarperCollins in January, 2010. It is a story of a hyper-intelligent alien species and a dim-witted President, who is mistrustful of the aliens without basis. The book was reviewed in Booklist, Publisher's Weekly, Library Journal and the Winnipeg Free Press.
Q
Q was published by HarperCollins in August, 2011. It is a story based on time travel, where the unnamed protagonist is visited by his future self and advised not to marry the love of his life. The novel was reviewed by The New York Times, the Financial Times, The Times Literary Supplement and Booklist magazine.
Q was published in the UK in July 2012 and thereafter translated into Italian (under the title Q una storia d'amore), Polish (as Q. Ponadczasowa historia miłosna), and Czech (as Má věčná Q).
In November, 2011, Columbia Pictures optioned the movie rights to Q. David Gordon Green was hired to write the screenplay and direct.
Works of Non-Fiction
Mandery began as a non-fiction writer and his first book The Campaign: Rudy Giuliani, Ruth Messinger, Al Sharpton and the Race to be Mayor of New York was published in 1999 by Westview Press. His academic writing focuses on capital punishment, and he has published two books on the subject named Capital Punishment in America: A Balanced Examination and A Wild Justice: The Death and Resurrection of Capital Punishment in America. A Wild Justice was reviewed by The New York Times.