David Vann

David Vann is an internationally bestselling author whose work has been translated into eighteen languages. He is the winner of fourteen prizes, including France’s Prix Médicis étranger, Spain’s Premi Llibreter, the Grace Paley Prize, a California Book Award, the AWP Nonfiction Prize, and France’s L’Express readers’ prize. His books include Legend of a Suicide, Caribou Island, A Mile Down, and Last Day on Earth.A Guggenheim fellow and former Stegner fellow and National Endowment for the Arts fellow, he is a Professor at the University of Warwick in England. He has written for The Atlantic, Esquire, Outside, Men’s Health, Men’s Journal, McSweeney’s, the Sunday Times, the Observer, and many others, and he has appeared in documentaries for the BBC, NOVA, National Geographic, and CNN.