David Vann (writer)

David Vann (born October 19, 1966 in Adak Island, Alaska) is a novelist, short story writer, and creative writing professor at the University of Warwick in England. Vann received a Guggenheim Fellowship and has been a National Endowment of the Arts fellow, a Wallace Stegner fellow, and a John L’Heureux fellow. His work has appeared in many magazines and newspapers. His books have been selected for the New Yorker Book Club, the Times Book Club, the Samlerens Bogklub in Denmark and have been optioned for film. He has appeared in documentaries with the BBC, CNN, PBS, National Geographic, and E! Entertainment.