David Vann - Dirt

I’d like to thank the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and the University of San Francisco for generous support during the writing of this novel, and Colm Tóibín, Janet Burroway, and David Kirby for recommending me.

I’d also like to thank everyone at Harper, especially Gail Winston, Jonathan Burnham, Jane Beirn, and Maya Ziv, and everyone at Inkwell, especially Kim Witherspoon, David Forrer, Lyndsey Blessing, Patricia Burke, and Alexis Hurley.

And I must of course thank Galen Palmer, my best friend in high school, whose name I’ve borrowed here. Early on, he was the one who helped turn my life around.

David Vann is the author of Legend of a Suicide , which has won ten prizes, including the Prix Médicis étranger in France and the Premi Llibreter in Spain. Translated into eighteen languages, Legend of a Suicide is an international bestseller, has been on forty Best Books of the Year lists worldwide, was selected by The New Yorker Book Club and the Times Book Club, was read in full on North German radio, and will be made into a film. His novel Caribou Island is an international bestseller, was a finalist for the Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize, and was read on the BBC. It will also be made into a film. He is the author of the bestselling memoir A Mile Down: The True Story of a Disastrous Career at Sea and Last Day on Earth: A Portrait of the NIU School Shooter , winner of the AWP Nonfiction Prize. A current Guggenheim fellow and former Wallace Stegner fellow and National Endowment for the Arts fellow, he is a professor at the University of San Francisco and has written for The Atlantic, Esquire, Outside, Men’s Health, Men’s Journal , the Sunday Times , the Observer , the Guardian , the Sunday Telegraph , the Financial Times, Elle UK, Esquire UK, Esquire Russia, National Geographic Adventure, Writer’s Digest, McSweeney’s , and other magazines and has appeared in documentaries for the BBC, NOVA, National Geographic, CNN, and E! Entertainment.

www.DavidVann.com

Visit www.AuthorTracker.com for exclusive information on your favorite HarperCollins authors.