William T. Vollmann

Fiction writer, journalist, and essayist William T. Vollmann grew up in Los Angeles, California and Bloomington, Indiana. He earned a BA from Cornell University, and he studied for a year on a fellowship in the doctoral program in comparative literature at the University of California, Berkeley. Vollmann’s numerous books include The Lucky Star (2020), Imperial (2009), the National Book Award-winning Europe Central (2005), The Royal Family (2000), An Afghanistan Picture Show (1992), and The Rainbow Stories (1989). He has also published work in Harper’s, Esquire, The New Yorker, and The New York Times Book Review, among others. He is the recipient of an American Book Award, the PEN USA Literary Award for Research Nonfiction, and a Whiting Award. He lives in Sacramento, California.