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Teddy Wayne

Biography

Teddy Wayne

Teddy Wayne is the author of the novels THE GREAT MAN THEORY, APARTMENT, LONER, THE LOVE SONG OF JONNY VALENTINE and KAPITOIL. He is the winner of a Whiting Writers’ Award and an NEA Creative Writing Fellowship as well as a finalist for the Young Lions Fiction Award, PEN/Bingham Prize, and Dayton Literary Peace Prize. A former columnist for the New York Times and McSweeney’s and a frequent contributor to The New Yorker, he has taught at Columbia University and Washington University in St. Louis. He has developed films and series from his novels with HBO, MGM Television and Mad Dog Films. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife, the writer Kate Greathead, and their children.

Teddy Wayne

Books by Teddy Wayne