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Kerry Howley

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Kerry Howley
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Kerry Howley (born 1981) is an American feature writer at New York magazine, a professor at the University of Iowa's Nonfiction Writing Program, and a screenwriter.[1][2] She is the author of the work of literary nonfiction Thrown (2014).[3]

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Life and career

Howley graduated from Georgetown University and the University of Iowa's nonfiction MFA program. Prior to working at New York, She was an editor at Reason magazine.[4] Her work has appeared in New York magazine,[5] The Paris Review,[6] The New Yorker,[7] and Granta.[8]

Howley is the author of Thrown, which was named a New York Times Notable Book,[9] a New York Times Editor's Choice, and a best book of 2014 in Slate,[10] Salon,[11] Playboy, and Time.[12] Thrown was long-listed for the PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sportswriting[13] and won first prize in the Next Generation Indie Book Awards.[14]

Howley has been named a Lannan Foundation Fellow.[15] Both her 2018 New York cover story on disgraced doctor Larry Nassar[16] and her 2021 New York essay on January 6 were nominated for Best Feature at the National Magazine Awards.[17]

In 2022 filming began on Winner, a film scripted by Howley based on the life of Reality Winner. It is directed by Susanna Fogel and stars Emilia Jones.[18]

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Kerry Howley at a reading of her book, Thrown at Politics and Prose, in Georgetown University, 23 November 2014
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Works

Books

  • Thrown. Louisville, Ky.: Sarabande Books. 2014. ISBN 978-1-936747-92-4.[19][20][21]
  • Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 2023. ISBN 9780525655497.[22]

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Interviews

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References

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