Joshua Ferris

Joshua Ferris

Infobox Writer
name = Joshua Ferris


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birthdate = 1974
birthplace = Danville, Illinois
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occupation = novelist
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nationality = United States
influences = Joseph Heller, Don DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon, Vladimir Nabokov, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Anton Chekov, Franz Kafka
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Joshua Ferris (born 1974) is an American author best known for his debut 2007 novel, "Then We Came to the End". The book is a satire of the American workplace. It takes places in a ficticious Chicago ad agency that is experiencing a downturn at the end of the '90s Internet boom.

Joshua Ferris graduated from the University of Iowa with a BA in 1996. He then moved to Chicago, which he regards as home, before obtaining an MFA in writing from UC Irvine. His first published story, “Mrs. Blue”, appeared in the “Iowa Review” in 1999. "Then We Came to the End" has been greeted by positive reviews from The New Yorker, Esquire, and Slate and was a finalist for the National Book Award.

The New Yorker recently published a short story written by Ferris entitled "The Dinner Party" in an August 2008 issue.

External links

* [http://www.penguin.co.uk/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780141027630,00.html "Penguin Books" interview (01/2008)]
* [http://www.powells.com/authors/joshuaferris.html "Powell's Books" interview (02/2007)]
* [http://www.popentertainment.com/ferris.htm "Pop Entertainment" interview (05/2007)]
* [http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/18/books/review/Poniewozik.t.html "New York Times" book review (03/2007)]
* [http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,2061320,00.html "Guardian" Joshua Ferris excerpt (04/2007)]
* [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9775501 NPR Radio Interview on "Fresh Air"]


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