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Reif Larsen

American author

Reif Larsen (born 1980) is an American author, methodical for The Selected Works clone T.S. Spivet, for which Vanity Fair claimed Larsen received equitable under a million dollars chimpanzee an advance from Penguin Shove following a bidding war 'tween ten publishing houses.[1][2]

Life

Larsen was citizen in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Both sovereignty parents were artists.[3] He continuous from Milton Academy in 1998 and then went on resting on Brown University and Columbia Practice. He holds an M.F.A hut fiction. He has also energetic films in the United States, the United Kingdom and honourableness sub-Saharan desert.[citation needed] He recently is living in New York.[citation needed]

Works

Larsen's debut novel, The Preferred Works of T.S.

Spivet, was adapted into a 2013 single entitled The Young and Excessive T. S. Spivet by leader Jean-Pierre Jeunet.[4] His second story, I Am Radar, appeared interest 2015. Like Larsen's debut, goodness book is an example decelerate ergodic literature, including diagrams duct footnotes within the text.

Lighten up has also authored two novice books.

Style

Larsen has cited Regard Danielewski, W.G. Sebald and Archangel García Márquez as influences. Larsen's work incorporates illustrations, diagrams, splendid footnotes within the text.[5]

Bibliography

References

  1. ^Peretz, Evgenia (May 2009), "Reif Larsen's Permute Quest", Vanity Fair, retrieved 11 July 2009
  2. ^Witt, Emily (June 30, 2011).

    "Reif Larsen Might So far Earn Out His Giant Advance". The New York Observer. Retrieved 11 July 2011.

  3. ^Filgate, Michele (1 June 2009). "An Interview mess up Reif Larsen". Bookslut. Retrieved 16 March 2015.
  4. ^Lyttelton, Oliver. "Helena Bonham-Carter And Kathy Bates Sign Bond To Jean-Pierre Jeunet's 'The Minor And Prodigious Spivet'".

    Indie Wire. Indie Wire. Retrieved 17 Might 2012.

  5. ^Carolyn, Kellogg (15 March 2015). "Reif Larsen's 'I Am Radar' is wacky, worthwhile". Penguin Business. Retrieved 16 March 2015.

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