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Christopher

Nicholas Christopher. Courtesy Counterpoint Press.

Nicholas Christopher (born 1951) is an American poet, novelist, and film critic.

Life[]

Christopher graduated from Harvard University with a B.A. He teaches at Columbia University.[1]

His work has appeared in The New Yorker,[2] Esquire, The New Republic, The Paris Review, The Nation, and the New York Review of Books. His novels can be considered as magic realist.[3]

Writing[]

Salon: "If you were looking to write a crossover fantasy novel – one whose audience extended beyond sci-fi enthusiasts and aging Tolkienistas – you could hardly do better than to study "A Trip to the Stars." With this zestful riff on an enduring genre, Nicholas Christopher should easily satisfy the admirers of his previous novel, "Veronica." He is also likely to gain new readers, including those who foray reluctantly into so-called imaginative literature."[4]

Loaded Questions: "The Bestiary, Nicholas Christopher's fifth novel, is a book about Xeno Atlas, a young man raised by his grandmother in the wake of his mother's death during birth. Atlas' father is shipman with a murky and often absent influence on the child's life. Xeno, who reports always feeling a close connection to animals first fostered by his grandmother, sets out on a world-wide adventure to find missing texts with mythical creatures. The book is magical, filled with characters you can't help but find sympathy for and mysteries you can't wait to be solved."[5]

Recognition[]

Christopher was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1993 and a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship. [6]

Publications[]

Poetry[]

  • On Tour with Rita. New York: Knopf, 1982.
  • A Short History of the Island of Butterflies. New York: Viking, 1986.
  • Desperate Characters. New York: Viking, 1988.
  • In the Year of the Comet. New York: Viking, 1992.
  • Five Degrees and other poems. New York: Penguin, 1995.
  • The Creation of the Night Sky: Poems. New York: Harcourt, 1998.
  • Atomic Field: Two poems. New York: Harcourt, 2000.
  • Crossing the Equator: New and Selected Poems. New York: Harcourt, 2007.

Novels[]

  • The Soloist. New York: Viking, 1986.
  • Veronica. New York: Dial Press, 1996. ISBN 978-0-385-31471-8
  • A Trip to the Stars. New York: Dial Press, 2000.
  • Franklin Flyer. New York: Dial Press, 2002.
  • The Bestiary. New York: Dial Press, 2007.

Non-fiction[]

  • Somewhere in the Night: Film noir and the American city. New York: Free Press, 1997.

Edited[]

  • Under 35: The new generation. New York: Anchor Books, 1989.
  • Walk on the Wild Side: Urban American poetry since 1975. New York: Scribner, 1994.


Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy the Poetry Foundation.[3]

See also[]

Nicholas_Christopher_Poem

Nicholas Christopher Poem

References[]

  1. Columbia profile.
  2. New Yorker profile
  3. 3.0 3.1 Nicholas Christopher b. 1951, Poetry Foundation, Web, Aug. 19, 2012.
  4. "A Trip to the Stars" review, SalonFeb, 25, 2000, Web, Aug. 19, 2012.
  5. [www.loaded-questions.com/2007/09/new-author-interview-nicholas.html Loaded questions]
  6. Guggenheim fellowship

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