Joseph O'Neill (born 1964)

Joseph O'Neill (born 1964)

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name = Joseph O'Neill


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birthdate = 1964
birthplace = Cork, Ireland flagicon|Ireland
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occupation = lawyer, fiction writer, cultural critic
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period = 1991-present
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debut_works = "This Is The Life" (1991)
influences = F. Scott Fitzgerald, Marilynne Robinson
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Joseph O'Neill (born 1964 in Cork, Ireland) is an Irish-born novelist and non-fiction writer.

Life

O'Neill, who has Turkish ancestry, was born in Cork, Ireland, in 1964, and grew up in The Netherlands, where he attended boarding school at The Hague. He read law at Girton College, Cambridge, preferring it over English because "literature was too precious" and he wanted it to remain a hobby. After a year off to write his first novel, O'Neill became a barrister at the English Bar, where he practised for ten years at The Temple, principally in the field of business law.

He is married to "Vogue" editor Sally Singer, who rejected his second novel when she was working as an editor at Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. They live in the Chelsea Hotel in New York with their three sons.

Writing

O'Neill is the author of three novels, the most recent of which, "Netherland", was published in May 2008 and was featured on the cover of the "New York Times Book Review" [ [http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/18/books/review/Garner-t.html?ref=review Netherland - Joseph O’Neill - Book Review - Review - NYTimes.com ] ] where it was called, "the wittiest, angriest, most exacting and most desolate work of fiction we’ve yet had about life in New York and London after the World Trade Center fell". Literary critic James Wood called it "one of the most remarkable postcolonial books I have ever read". Among the books on the longlist, it was the favourite to win the Man Booker Prize. [http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/sep/07/celebrity] However, on September 9, 2008, the Booker nominee shortlist was announced, and the novel stunningly failed to make the list. [http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/10/books/10book.html?hp]

He is also the author of a non-fiction book, "Blood-Dark Track: A Family History", which was a New York Times Notable Book for 2002 and a book of the year for the "Economist" and the "Irish Times".

Additionally, O'Neill writes literary and cultural criticism, most regularly for the "Atlantic Monthly".

Works

Novels

[http://www.amazon.com/dp/0307377040 "Netherland"] (Pantheon; Fourth Estate) (2008)
[http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/057117258X "The Breezes"] (Faber & Faber) (1996)
[http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0374275904 "This Is The Life"] (Faber & Faber; Farrar Straus & Giroux) (1991)

Non-fiction

[http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1862072884 "Blood-Dark Track: A Family History"] (Granta Books) (2001)

hort fiction

See stories in:

* [http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0571230458 "Faber Book of Best New Irish Short Stories" (Ed., David Marcus)] (Faber & Faber) (2007)
* [http://www.amazon.com/dp/0786712066 "Dislocation: Stories from a New Ireland" (Ed., Caroline Walsh)] (Carroll & Graf) (2003)
*"Phoenix Irish Short Stories" (Ed., David Marcus) (1999)

Journalism

* [http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/by/joseph_o_neill Archive of Atlantic writings]
* [http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/by/joseph_o_8217_neill Atlantic writings (2)]
* [http://nymag.com/nymag/author_418/ Archive of pieces for New York magazine]
* [http://www.granta.com/Magazine/72/The-Ascent-of-Man "The Ascent of Man"] ("Granta", issue 72, Winter 2000)

References

External links

New York Times [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A04E2DD173CF934A25751C0A9649C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all]

New York Review of Books [http://www.nybooks.com/articles/article-preview?article_id=15246]

London Review of Books [http://www.lrb.co.uk/v23/n05/marg01_.html]

"Blood-Dark Track" is the subject of an essay in "Collective Traumas: Memories of War and Conflict in 20th Century Europe", Mithander, Conny / Sundholm, John / Holmgren Troy, Maria (eds.) [http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:d8h7NezDcPYJ:www.peterlang.com/index.cfm%3FvID%3D21068%26vLang%3DD%26vHR%3D1%26vUR%3D25%26vUUR%3D+joseph+o%27neill+peter+lang&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us&ie=UTF-8]

Joseph O'Neill at Irish Writers Online [http://www.irishwriters-online.com/josephoneill.html]


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