David Vann (writer)
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David Vann was born October 19, 1966, on Adak Island in the Aleutian Islands, Alaska. He is a novelist and short story writer, and was formerly a professor of creative writing at the University of Warwick in England.[1] Vann received a Guggenheim Fellowship[2] and has been a National Endowment of the Arts[3] fellow, a Wallace Stegner fellow,[4] and a John L’Heureux fellow. His work has appeared in many magazines and newspapers. His books have been published in 23 languages[5] and have won 14 prizes[6] and been on 83 'best books of the year' lists.[7] They have been selected for the New Yorker Book Club, the Times Book Club, the Samlerens Bogklub in Denmark and have been optioned for film by Inkfactory and Haut et Court.[8][9] He has appeared in documentaries with the BBC, CNN, PBS, National Geographic, and E! Entertainment.