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Fact File
| Name:
Michael Gruber
Current Home:
Seattle, Washington
Place of Birth:
New York, New York
| | Education:
B.A., Columbia University, 1961; Ph.D., University of Miami, 1973
Michael Gruber's official web site
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Gruber's Chilling Latest
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| | The Book of Air and Shadows
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Michael Gruber
The Washington Post called Gruber's previous work "a miracle of intelligent fiction and among the essential novels of recent years." Now comes his most intellectually provocative and compulsively readable novel yet. In it, a literary quest becomes a high-stakes treasure hunt as two unlikely rare-book sleuths find themselves in pursuit of a hitherto unknown work of William Shakespeare.
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Advice for the Aspiring
| In our interview, we asked Gruber to share his advice to aspiring writers. "If I had an inspiring anecdote, I would not reveal it, since I don’t wish to inspire people to write," he explains. "I wish to discourage them. It is a hard, frustrating, miserable way to earn a living.... "If you can possibly avoid writing for a living, do so."
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A Daring Debut
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| | Tropic of Night
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Michael Gruber
Gruber's publisher on his first novel: "Imagine Smilla’s Sense of Snow crossed with Rosemary’s Baby: Tropic of Night is an extraordinary literary thriller, as terrifying as it is original, that launches a talent deserving of comparison to Thomas Harris, with a story in which a female anthropologist studying Shamanistic ritual in Africa fakes her own suicide and relocates to Miami to an unsuccessful attempt to escape a powerful practitioner of dark magic."
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| | Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance
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Richard Powers
Gruber had this to say about one of his favorite books: "The author sees a photo of three anonymous men and makes up a story and weaves it together with the story of the photographer and his own life as well. A startlingly original piece of work, the kind of book that, if you’re a writer, makes you want to kill the author." Read our interview to learn more about Gruber's favorite reads, including:
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