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Jonathan Ames is the author of the books The Double Life is Twice As Good, I Pass Like Night, The Extra Man, What's Not to Love?, My Less Than Secret Life, Wake Up, Sir!, I Love You More Than You Know, and The Alcoholic . He is the editor of Sexual Metamorphosis: An Anthology of Transsexual Memoirs.

He is the winner of a Guggenheim Fellowship and is a former columnist for New York Press.

Wake Up, Sir! and The Extra Man are in development as films, with Mr. Ames having written the screenplays. He adapted What's Not to Love? as a TV special for the Showtime network and he played himself. At the time, he said, "It's the role I've been waiting for!" The special aired in December 2007 and January 2008.

Mr. Ames has also written a TV pilot for the HBO network, Bored to Death, and this will be filmed in the fall of 2008. The pilot will star Jason Schwartzman as "Jonathan Ames". Bored to Death was originally a short story by Mr. Ames which was published in McSweeney's #24 .

In addition to writing, Jonathan Ames performs frequently as a storyteller and has been a guest on the Late Show with David Letterman.

He has had two amateur boxing matches, fighting as "The Herring Wonder," and he had a one-man show off-off-Broadway, entitled Oedipussy. Mr. Ames had the lead role in the IFC film The Girl Under the Waves and was a porn-extra in the porn film C-Men.

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Jonathan Ames

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Books from Jonathan Ames

Wake Up, Sir!

The Alcoholic

You Were Never Really Here

I Love You More Than You Know

What's Not to Love?: The Adventures of a Mildly Perverted Young Writer

I Pass Like Night

My Less Than Secret Life: A Diary, Fiction, Essays

The Double Life is Twice as Good

A Man Named Doll

The Curious Case of Sidd Finch

Sexual Metamorphosis: An Anthology of Transsexual Memoirs

Bored to Death: A Noir-otic Story

Coming and Crying

The Insomniac Reader: Stories of the Night

Schmuck

The Extra Man

Don't Forget to Write: 54 Enthralling and Effective Writing Lessons for Students 6-18

Awake!: A Reader for the Sleepless

Open City #26

Open City #9: Bewitched