David Vann





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October 19, 1966 in Adak, Alaska, The United States

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David Vann’s Legend of a Suicide, an international bestseller and winner of the 2010 Prix Medicis in France, the L'Express readers' prize in France, the Grace Paley Prize, and a California Book Award, has been on 29 “Best Books of the Year” lists in the US, UK, Ireland, Spain, France, and Australia, including The Times Literary Supplement and The New York Times. Vann was also shortlisted for The Sunday Times Short Story Award and longlisted for the Story Prize. His new novel, Caribou Island, set in his native Alaska, will be out January 18, 2011 from HarperCollins, and he has a nonfiction book about a school shooting coming out Sept 2011 (titled Last Day On Earth). A former Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford and National Endowment for the A...more


Hello all,
The book I worked on for ten years, Legend of a Suicide, has just come out in paperback, chosen by Lorrie Moore for The New Yorker Book Club this month. It will be the May selection of The Times (London) Book Club. The book has been on 25 “Best Books of the Year” lists in the US, UK, Ireland, and Australia, including the New York Times, and is the winner of the Grace Paley Prize and a... read more »
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Published on April 02, 2010 21:41 • 293 views • Tags: david-vann, legend-of-a-suicide
Average rating: 3.46 · 1,578 ratings · 508 reviews · 13 distinct works
Caribou Island
3.25 of 5 stars 3.25 avg rating — 737 ratings — published 2010 — 17 editions
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Legend of a Suicide
3.7 of 5 stars 3.70 avg rating — 520 ratings — published 2008 — 7 editions
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Sukkwan Island
3.68 of 5 stars 3.68 avg rating — 163 ratings — published 2008 — 18 editions
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Dirt: A Novel
3.11 of 5 stars 3.11 avg rating — 73 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions
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A Mile Down: The True Story...
3.65 of 5 stars 3.65 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 2005 — 2 editions
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Last Day on Earth: A Portra...
3.31 of 5 stars 3.31 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2011
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Ketchikan: A Short Story fr...
3.8 of 5 stars 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions
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4.33 of 5 stars 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions
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Rhoda: A Short Story from L...
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A Legend of Good Men: A Sho...
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David Vann made a comment on Legend of a Suicide:
"Hi Ruxandra,
My books will be coming out in Finnish, but not for quite a while, perhaps as late as 2014, so I'll be visiting then.
Best,
David
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David Vann is now friends with Newbee (JoAnn) Brown
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“I thought that was a wonderful idea, that one could be on hell without being in it, like “Just Visiting” on the Monopoly board.”
David Vann, Legend of a Suicide

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