William T. Vollmann
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Over de Auteur
Journalist and novelist William T. Vollmann was born in 1959 and educated at Cornell University. He worked as a comptuer programmer before becoming a journalist and covering Bosnia, Sarajevo and Afghanistan. He has written extensively since 1987, when his first book, You Bright and Risen Angels, toon meer was published. The Atlas (1996) won the PEN Center USA West Award for the best novel by a writer living west of the Mississippi. His newest work of Non-Fiction is entitled, Imperial. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
Fotografie: Rich Pedroncelli / AP Photo
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Rising Up and Rising Down: Some Thoughts on Violence, Freedom and Urgent Means {abridged} (2004) 658 exemplaren
Rising Up and Rising Down: Some Thoughts on Violence, Freedom and Urgent Means {7 Volumes} (2003) 107 exemplaren
Into the Forbidden Zone: A Trip Through Hell and High Water in Post-Earthquake Japan (2011) 57 exemplaren
Historias del arcoíris (2ªED) 3 exemplaren
Shadows of Love, Shadows of Loneliness: Volume Two: Drawings, Prints & Paintings: 1980-2020 (2022) 3 exemplaren
The Cloud Shirt (extract) 2 exemplaren
The Tale of the Dying Lungs 1 exemplaar
Red Hands [short fiction] 1 exemplaar
Nicole 1 exemplaar
The Convict Bird: A Children's Poem 1 exemplaar
Machines of Loving Grace {article} 1 exemplaar
De Sade's Last Stand 1 exemplaar
Expectations (in McSweeney's 33 - EGGERS) 1 exemplaar
Yellow Rose (in Love is Strange, ROSE) 1 exemplaar
Vollmann William 1 exemplaar
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Storming the Reality Studio: A Casebook of Cyberpunk and Postmodern Science Fiction (1991) — Medewerker — 248 exemplaren
McSweeney's Issue 9 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): We Feel This One Is More Urgent (2002) — Medewerker — 201 exemplaren
Take My Advice: Letters to the Next Generation from People Who Know a Thing or Two (2002) — Medewerker — 45 exemplaren
Die Geschichtenerzähler: Neues und Unbekanntes von Allende bis Zafón (suhrkamp taschenbuch) (2008) — Medewerker — 4 exemplaren
Black Clock 3 — Medewerker — 1 exemplaar
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- Officiële naam
- Vollmann, William Tanner
- Geboortedatum
- 1959-07-28
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- male
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- USA
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- Los Angeles, California, USA
- Woonplaatsen
- Sacramento, California, USA
Bloomington, Indiana, USA - Opleiding
- University of California, Berkeley (Graduate Studies)
Cornell University (BA summa cum laude|1982 - Comparative Literature)
Deep Springs College - Beroepen
- journalist
novelist - Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Literature, 2007)
Whiting Writers' Award (1988)
National Book Award for Fiction (2005)
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I think I'd probably be happier reading the imaginary book: "Best American Adventure Travel Writing".
The thing I like best about collections like this is being able to come to them when you need something to read but can't commit to a serious novel. This has been good bedtime reading for me this month.… (meer)