Genre Fiction | Name Reif Larsen Role Author | |
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Alma mater Milton AcademyBrown UniversityColumbia University Notable works The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet Movies The Young and Prodigious Spivet, Crawford Nominations Guardian First Book Award, Goodreads Choice Awards Best Fiction Similar People Jean‑Pierre Jeunet, Guillaume Laurant, Thomas Hardmeier, Aline Bonetto, Madeline Fontaine | ||
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Reif Larsen (born 1980) is an American author, known for The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet, for which Vanity Fair claimed Larsen received just under a million dollars as an advance from Penguin Press following a bidding war between ten publishing houses.
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- Ic13nl reif larsen on infogasm
- Reif larsen interview for the selected works of t s spivet
- Life
- Works
- Style
- References
Reif larsen interview for the selected works of t s spivet
Life
Larsen was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Both his parents were artists. He graduated from Milton Academy in 1998 and then went on to Brown University and Columbia University. He holds an M.F.A in fiction. He has also made films in the United States, the United Kingdom and the sub-Saharan desert. He currently is living in New York.
Works
Larsen's debut novel, The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet, was adapted into a 2013 film entitled The Young and Prodigious T. S. Spivet by director Jean-Pierre Jeunet.
Larsen has cited Mark Danielewski, W.G. Sebald and Gabriel García Márquez as influences.
Style
Larsen's work incorporates illustrations, diagrams, and footnotes within the text.
