Chris Adrian Explained

Chris Adrian (born November 7, 1970) is an American author. Adrian's writing styles in short stories vary greatly; from modernist realism to pronounced lyrical allegory. His novels tend toward surrealism, having mostly realistic characters experience fantastic circumstances. He has written four novels: Gob's Grief, The Children's Hospital, The Great Night, and The New World. In 2008, he published A Better Angel, a collection of short stories. His short fiction has also appeared in The Paris Review, Zoetrope, Ploughshares,^[1] McSweeney's, The New Yorker, The Best American Short Stories, and Story. He was one of 11 fiction writers to receive a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2009.^[2] He lives in San Francisco.^[3]

Education

Adrian completed his bachelor's degree in English from the University of Florida in 1993. He received his M.D. from Eastern Virginia Medical School in 2001. He completed a pediatric residency at the University of California, San Francisco, was a student at Harvard Divinity School, and a fellow of pediatric hematology/oncology at UCSF in 2011. He is also a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Currently, Adrian serves as the Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Columbia University Medical Center.^[4]

Bibliography

Novels

• Gob's Grief (2001)
• The Children's Hospital (2006)
• The Great Night (2011)
• The New World, with Eli Horowitz (2015)

Short story collections

• A Better Angel (collection, 2008, FSG)https://web.archive.org/web/20080821041346/http://us.macmillan.com/abetterangel includes:
  • High Speeds (1997) (originally published in Story)
  • The Sum of Our Parts (1999) (originally published in Ploughshares)
  • Stab (2006) (originally published in Zoetrope: All-Story)
  • The Vision of Peter Damien (2007) (originally published in Zoetrope: All-Story)
  • A Better Angel (2006) (originally published in The New Yorker)
  • The Changeling (2007) (originally published in Esquire as "Promise Breaker")
  • A Hero of Chickamauga (1999) (originally published in Story)
  • A Child's Book of Sickness and Death (2004) (originally published in McSweeney's 14)
  • Why Antichrist? (2007) (originally published in Tin House)
• Uncollected
  • You Can Have It (1996) (published in The Paris Review 141)
  • Grief (1997) (published in Story)
  • Every Night for a Thousand Years (1997) (published in The New Yorker)
  • Horse and Horseman (1998) (published in) Available online
  • The Glass House (2000) (published in The New Yorker)
  • The Stepfather (2005) (published in McSweeney's 18)
  • A Tiny Feast (2009) (published in The New Yorker)
  • The Black Square (2009) (published in McSweeney's 32)
  • The Warm Fuzzies (2010) (published in The New Yorker)
  • Grand Rounds (2012) (published in Granta 120)

External links

• • Info on Adrian

Notes and References

1. Web site: Author Details . Pshares.org . 2013-12-04.
2. Web site: Guggenheim Fellowships for 2009 Announced. Publishers Weekly. April 21, 2009.
3. Web site: Chris Adrian . MacMillian . February 24, 2021.
4. Web site: A Conversation with UCSF Fellow Chris Adrian, a New Yorker Writer to Watch . Rauch . Catharine . July 22, 2010 . UCSF . February 24, 2021.