Nationality American Role Writer Alma mater Harvard University Spouse Jacqueline Carey | Period 1974–present Children Cora Frazier Name Ian Frazier | |
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Occupation Non-fiction writer, humorist Notable works Great Plains (1989)
Coyote v. Acme (1996)
Travels in Siberia (2010) Education Harvard University, Western Reserve Academy Awards Whiting Awards, Spur Award for Best Nonfiction People also search for Jacqueline Carey, Jason Wilson, Douglas Nickel, Cora Frazier Books On the Rez, Coyote v Acme, Lamentations of the father, Great Plains, Dating your mom | ||
Ian frazier at the nys writers institute in 2011
Ian Frazier (born 1951 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American writer and humorist. He wrote the 1989 non-fiction history Great Plains, 2010's non-fiction travelogue Travels in Siberia, and worked as a writer and humorist for The New Yorker.
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Biography
Frazier grew up in Hudson, Ohio; his father worked as a chemist for Sohio; his mother was an amateur actor, performing and directing plays in local Ohio theaters. He graduated from Western Reserve Academy in 1969 and from Harvard University in 1973.
Writing career
The New York Times critic James Gorman described Frazier's 1996 humor collection Coyote v. Acme (in the title piece, Wile E. Coyote is suing the manufacturer of various rocket-propelled devices) as the occasion for "irrepressible laughter in the reader." Gorman rates Frazier's first collection, 1986's Dating Your Mom, as "one of the best collections of humor ever published."