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By the numbers: 1) wife; 2) novels, All Saints and The Cloud
Atlas, finalist for the Edgar Award for best first novel; 3) alma maters,
Yale (BA), Georgetown (MA), George Mason (MFA); 4) daughters; 5) hometowns:
Washington, DC, Los Angeles, Wilmington, DE, New Haven, CT, and, now,
Milwaukee, WI. By (or buy) the book: Liam is the author of The Cloud Atlas (Delacorte, 2004; Dial, 2005) and All Saints (Delacorte, 2007; Dial, 2008). By the way: Liam teaches in the English department of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and coordinates their Ph.D. program in creative writing. He has regularly contributed to local and national public radio, and has written for Commonweal, Esquire.com (on swimming and flying), Slate, the New York Times Book Review, the Times’ op-ed page, the Washington Post Magazine, Forbes FYI, Good Housekeeping, Parents and a number of other publications in locations ranging from Canada to Brazil. His short fiction has appeared in a variety of literary journals, including the Writers’ Chronicle, Blackbird, Crab Orchard Review, Southern Indiana Review, Caketrain, failbetter and Phoebe. Liam is also the creator and co-executive producer of the Poetry Everywhere animated film series. For more, check out these interviews in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel and on WUWM's Lake Effect or over at KGBBarLit. And in answer to the perennial question, "do you really look like your author photo?": yes, if I'm on the roof of a Manhattan apartment building with photographer Greg Martin. In real life, I appear in color. |
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