Dan Chaon

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Dan Chaon is the acclaimed author of the bestselling novel Ill Will (Ballantine Books, 2017), named a best book of the year by The New York Times; the short story collection, Stay Awake (Ballantine Books, 2012), which The Washington Post called, “powerful and disturbing,” the novel Await Your Reply (Ballantine Books, 2009) called “stunning” by The New York Times;  You Remind Me of Me (Ballantine Books, 2004) a novel which Elizabeth McCracken said is ”one of the strangest, most beautiful, most compelling books I’ve read in a long time;” the story collection Among the Missing (Ballantine Books, 2001) a finalist for the National Book Award; and the story collection Fitting Ends (Triquarterly, 1995).  Chaon has been a finalist for the National Magazine Award in Fiction, and he was the recipient of the 2006 Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.  His next novel, Sleepwalk, will be published by Henry Holt & Co in April 2022.

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