Nationality American Education Boston University Role Author | Name Micah Nathan Period 2005–present | |
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Occupation Novelist, short-story writer, essayist Notable works Gods of Aberdeen (2005), Losing Graceland (2011), Jack the Bastard and Other Stories (2012) Notable awards Saul Bellow Prize for Fiction (2010); Finalist: Tobias Wolff Award for Short Fiction (2008); Finalist: Innovative Fiction Award (2009) Books El Ultimo Alquimista, Gods of Aberdeen, Losing Graceland: A Novel | ||
Meet Author Micah Nathan
Micah Nathan is an award-winning American author and essayist. His best-selling debut novel, Gods of Aberdeen, was published in 2005 by Simon & Schuster to critical acclaim. Nathan's second novel, Losing Graceland, (Broadway) published in 2011, was called "a blend of the ironic and the painfully sincere" by the Washington Post, while the Boston Globe referred to its "low-rent variations on a Homeric theme, antic originality, and the near-magic realism of Elvis as a geriatric Ulysses."
In 2012 Nathan published Jack the Bastard and Other Stories, a short story collection with illustrations by Russ Nicholson, Phil Noto, Tradd Moore, and Michael Allred. Fat Possum Records released a limited edition soundtrack for the book, featuring tracks by The Black Keys and Townes Van Zandt.
Nathan is a frequent contributor to Vanity Fair, and his essays and short fiction have appeared in The Paris Review, Kinfolk, The Best American Mystery Stories, Boston Globe Magazine, Post Road, Bellingham Review, Glimmer Train, The Gettysburg Review, Commonweal, and other national publications. He received his MFA from Boston University, where he was awarded the 2010 Saul Bellow Prize.