Friday, June 04, 2010
New Yorker's Best Young Authors
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, 32; Chris Adrian, 39; Daniel Alarcon, 33; David Bezmozgis, 37; Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, 38; Joshua Ferris, 35; Jonathan Safran Foer, 33; Nell Freudenberger, 35; Rivka Galchen, 34; Nicole Krauss, 35; Yiyun Li, 37; Dinaw Mengestu, 31; Philipp Meyer, 36; C. E. Morgan, 33; Tea Obreht, 24; Z Z Packer, 37; Karen Russell, 28; Salvatore Scibona, 35; Gary Shteyngart, 37; and Wells Tower, 37.Some of the names are familiar, others new so I have some catching up to do. The New Yorker will feature the authors in its double fiction issue next week.
(Thanks very much to @vangeyzel for the thumbs up on Twitter.)
Postscript
For a bit of balance how about a list of best authors over 80?
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List of 10 writers over 80 (including Elmore Leonard).
bet there are going to be a whole lot more lists like this!
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