William Vollmann
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William T. Vollmann is an American novelist and essayist. He was born in Los Angeles in 1959 and currently lives in Sacramento, California. Vollmann was a student at Deep Springs College and Cornell University. While writing his first novel You Bright and Risen Angels, Vollmann worked as a computer programmer. He travelled to Afghanistan during the Soviet invasion, writing about the experience in An Afghanistan picture show, or, How I Saved the World. He has published travel writing for Spin Magazine as well as The New Yorker. In early 2004 (after many delays) McSweeneys published Rising Up and Rising Down, a 3,300 page, seven volume treatise on violence; a single-volume condensed version was published at the end of the year.
Partial Bibliography
- You Bright And Risen Angels (1987)
- Rainbow Stories (1989)
- The Ice Shirt (1990)
- Whores For Gloria (1991)
- 13 Stories And 13 Epitaphs (1991)
- An Afghanistan Picture Show (1992)
- Fathers And Crows (1992)
- Butterfly Stories (1993)
- The Rifles (1994)
- The Atlas (1996)
- The Royal Family (2000)
- Argall (2001)
- Rising Up And Rising Down (2004)
- Europe Central (2005)
External links
- An unofficial homepage: http://mysite.verizon.net/res1x5xs/vollmann1.htm