Learn About Geoff Dyer on good-read.club

Geoff Dyer

3.7/5 ( ratings)

Geoff Dyer was born in Cheltenham, England, in 1958. He was educated at the local Grammar School and Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He is the author of four novels: Paris Trance, The Search, The Colour of Memory, and, most recently, Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi; a critical study of John Berger, Ways of Telling; five genre-defying titles: But Beautiful , The Missing of the Somme, Out of Sheer Rage , Yoga For People Who Can’t Be Bothered To Do It , and The Ongoing Moment , and Zona . His collection of essays, Otherwise Known as the Human Condition, won a National Book Critics Circle Award in 2012. He is also the editor of John Berger: Selected Essays and co-editor, with Margaret Sartor, of What Was True: The Photographs and Notebooks of William Gedney. A new book, Another Great Day at Sea, about life aboard the USS George H W Bush has just been published by Pantheon.
In 2003 he was a recipient of a Lannan Literary Fellowship; in 2005 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature; in 2006 he received the E. M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters; in 2009 he was the recipient of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Best Comic Novel and the GQ Writer of the Year Award . His books have been translated into twenty-four languages. His website is geoffdyer.com

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Popular Genres

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Geoff Dyer

Geoff Dyer

Books from Geoff Dyer

Sons and Lovers

Street Photographer

Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi

The Ongoing Moment

But Beautiful: A Book about Jazz

Zona: A Book About a Film About a Journey to a Room

Paris Trance

White Sands: Experiences from the Outside World

Another Great Day at Sea: Life Aboard the USS George H.W. Bush

The Missing of the Somme

The Suffering of Light

Out of Sheer Rage: Wrestling with D. H. Lawrence

Ox-Tales: Fire

Yoga For People Who Can't Be Bothered To Do It

Where You Are: A Collection of Maps That Will Leave You Feeling Completely Lost

All Hail the New Puritans

Understanding a Photograph

Vivian Maier: Street Photographer

Dayanita Singh: Go Away Closer

Andy Warhol: Dark Star