Brian Morton (American writer)

For the Scottish writer see Brian Morton.

Brian Morton (born 1955) is an American author, born in New York City. He graduated from Sarah Lawrence College. He has worked for Dissent, where he became executive editor in 1995. He currently teaches at Sarah Lawrence College, New York University and The Bennington Writing Seminars. Morton grew up in Teaneck, New Jersey.^[1]

Morton's 1998 novel Starting Out in the Evening was adapted into the 2007 film of the same name.^[2]

Works

Fiction

• The Dylanist (1991)
• Starting Out in the Evening (1998)
• A Window Across the River (2003)
• Breakable You (2006)
• Florence Gordon (2014)

Awards

• Starting Out in the Evening received the Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Koret Jewish Book Award for Fiction, and the Guggenheim Foundation Award. It was also a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award.
• A Window Across the River was chosen as a bookclub selection for The Today Show.

References

1. Voreacos, David. "AUTHOR COMES OF AGE -- FIRST BOOK IS A NOVEL EXPERIENCE", The Record (Bergen County), November 27, 1991. Accessed September 12, 2007.
2. Scott, A. O. "Starting Out in the Evening (2007)", The New York Times, November 23, 2007. Accessed May 4, 2008. "A crepuscular glow suffuses “Starting Out in the Evening,” Andrew Wagner’s intelligent, careful adaptation of a near-perfect novel by Brian Morton."

External links

• Publishers Weekly: Tales of Love and Art in the World
• Starting Out in the Evening at the Internet Movie Database
• Review of Starting Out in the Evening at The Occasional Review