Background
Christopher Nelson Meeks was born on September 13, 1953, in Minneapolis, to George Nelson Meeks and Sidney (Young) Wear.
2199 S University Blvd, Denver, CO 80208, United States
In 1976, Christopher Meeks received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Denver.
Los Angeles, CA 90007, United States
Christopher Meeks received a Master of Fine Arts in Professional Writing from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles in 1983.
2199 S University Blvd, Denver, CO 80208, United States
In 1976, Christopher Meeks received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Denver.
Los Angeles, CA 90007, United States
Christopher Meeks received a Master of Fine Arts in Professional Writing from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles in 1983.
(Explores Japan's contemporary economy a productive and ef...)
Explores Japan's contemporary economy a productive and efficient one which has grown out of the devastation of World War II, thrown Japan into an interdependent partnership with the United States, and made it a world economic force.
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1990
(A brief biography of the author of such popular books as ...)
A brief biography of the author of such popular books as "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" and "James and the Giant Peach".
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1993
(Here is a story collection about love, death, humor, and ...)
Here is a story collection about love, death, humor, and the glue called family. In one narrative, a man wakes up one morning to find the odor of dead fish won't go away, but no one else can smell it. In another, a couple's visit with friends to watch the Academy Awards has the protagonist envying his friends' lawn and lifestyle.
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2006
("Months and Seasons" is the follow-up story collection to...)
"Months and Seasons" is the follow-up story collection to Christopher Meeks's award-winning "The Middle-Aged Man and the Sea." With a combination of main characters from young to old and with drama and humor, the tales pursue such people as a supermodel who awakens after open-heart surgery, a famous playwright who faces a firestorm consuming the landscape, a reluctant man who attends a Halloween party as Dracula, and a New Yorker who thinks she's a chicken.
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2008
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In Christopher Meeks’s "The Brightest Moon of the Century," Edward, a young Minnesotan, is blessed with an abundance of “experience”—first when his mother dies and next when his father, an encyclopedia salesman, shoehorns Edward into a private boys school where he’s tortured and groomed.
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2009
(This drama is based on a real event. In the early 1960s, ...)
This drama is based on a real event. In the early 1960s, an anonymous committee of ordinary citizens in Seattle selected kidney disease victims from a pool for an experiment with something new: a kidney dialysis machine. If the experiment worked, a small number of people would live instead of surely die from kidney failure.
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2009
(This is a novella (10,500 words) taken from the collectio...)
This is a novella (10,500 words) taken from the collection "Months and Seasons." "The Sun is a Billiard Ball" weaves two stories around each other like a good French comedy. The first tells the tale of Albert, a car dealership owner in Santa Monica who finds blood in his stool one morning, and on this particular day, the craziness of his sales staff charge at him full force. Will Albert survive? The second story involves a young man named Wade who has just slept with a woman named Jazz, who he met the night before at a club. He loves her, but a secret she reveals bring them both to Santa Monica. Will they survive?
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2010
("Love at Absolute Zero" is about a physicist who tries to...)
"Love at Absolute Zero" is about a physicist who tries to apply the tools of science to finding a soul mate.
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2011
(Everyone has a bad day. Graduate student Ian Nash has los...)
Everyone has a bad day. Graduate student Ian Nash has lost his girlfriend in addition to being dropped from a Ph.D. program in theatre at a Southern California university. When he stops at a local coffee shop in the lobby of a bank to apply for a job, the proverbial organic matter hits the fan. A gang of four robs the bank, and things get bloody. Ian is taken hostage by the robbers when the police show up. Now he has to save his life.
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2013
(In "A Death in Vegas," the president of a company that sp...)
In "A Death in Vegas," the president of a company that specializes in beneficial bugs for organic gardeners discovers a young woman dead in his Las Vegas hotel suite.
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2014
(A scientist at the Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, Califo...)
A scientist at the Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, California, Martin works on the MOXIE project, a Mars rover mission that will help prepare for the first manned mission to the red planet. After Martin's daughter has started college, his wife, Samantha, acts strangely but says everything is fine. Then she leaves for no clear reason. While he's preparing for life on Mars, Martin struggles to understand life on Earth. With humor and compassion, Christopher Meeks explores a marriage and Mars with insight.
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2018
(This story is part of a series of new tales from Christop...)
This story is part of a series of new tales from Christopher Meeks of modern life in America.
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2018
(This story is part of a series of new tales from Christop...)
This story is part of a series of new tales from Christopher Meeks of modern life in America.
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2018
(This story is part of a series of new tales from Christop...)
This story is part of a series of new tales from Christopher Meeks of modern life in America.
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2018
(“7 Truths about Love” centers on Melissa, a woman who str...)
“7 Truths about Love” centers on Melissa, a woman who struggles with the idea that her estranged husband is happy. He lives a new life elsewhere in her same California community. They share a two-year-old daughter. When Melissa takes action, their lives take a turn. Along the way, quirky truths about love emerge.
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2018
(This story is part of a new series of tales from Christop...)
This story is part of a new series of tales from Christopher Meeks about modern life in America.
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2019
Christopher Nelson Meeks was born on September 13, 1953, in Minneapolis, to George Nelson Meeks and Sidney (Young) Wear.
In 1976, Christopher Meeks received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Denver and a Master of Fine Arts in Professional Writing from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles in 1983.
Christopher Meeks has been living in Los Angeles since 1977. He has taught English at Santa Monica College, and creative writing at CalArts, UCLA Extension, Art Center College of Design, and USC.
Christopher's fiction has appeared often in Rosebud magazine as well as other literary journals, and his books have won several awards. His short works have been collected into two volumes, “The Middle-Aged Man and the Sea” and “Months and Seasons.”
Meeks began as a playwright and has had three plays produced. Who Lives? A Drama is published. His focus is now on longer fiction. He’s published two comic novels, “The Brightest Moon of the Century” and “Love At Absolute Zero,” and two crime novels, “Blood Drama” and “A Death in Vegas.” He’s working on a novel based on the Iraq War. His unique literary sensibility ties them together–perhaps like the films from the Coen Brothers, directors who hail from the same state.
Christopher Meeks is known as the author of children's non-fiction books: Japan and Skydiving, and biographies of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Roald Dahl. Mr. Meeks has published two award-winning collections of short stories (The Middle-Aged Man and the Sea and Months and Seasons) and four novels (The Brightest Moon of the Century, Love at Absolute Zero, Blood Drama and A Death in Vegas).
His "Months and Seasons" appeared on the long list for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award.
(In Christopher Meeks’s "The Brightest Moon of the Century...)
2009(Explores Japan's contemporary economy a productive and ef...)
1990(A scientist at the Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, Califo...)
2018(In "A Death in Vegas," the president of a company that sp...)
2014("Months and Seasons" is the follow-up story collection to...)
2008(A brief biography of the author of such popular books as ...)
1993(“7 Truths about Love” centers on Melissa, a woman who str...)
2018("Love at Absolute Zero" is about a physicist who tries to...)
2011(This story is part of a new series of tales from Christop...)
2019(This story is part of a series of new tales from Christop...)
2018(This story is part of a series of new tales from Christop...)
2018(This story is part of a series of new tales from Christop...)
2018(Here is a story collection about love, death, humor, and ...)
2006(This is a novella (10,500 words) taken from the collectio...)
2010(This drama is based on a real event. In the early 1960s, ...)
2009(Everyone has a bad day. Graduate student Ian Nash has los...)
2013Christopher Meeks was a member of the International PEN, Dramatists Guild.
Quotes from others about the person
Gina B. Nahai: "If the object of art is to capture the reality of the human condition one glimpse at a time, then Christopher Meeks succeeds gloriously."
Grady Harp: "Meeks is a master craftsman."
Linda Hitchcock: "The only certainty about a Christopher Meeks novel is that the readers' senses will be delighted with his originality, superb writing, warmly sympathetic characters and clever plotting. A Death in Vegas neatly fits in the cozy mystery genre and becomes literary fiction in the hands of this deft wordsmith."
Carolyn Howard Johnson: "If the publishing and reading world is fair and just, Christopher Meeks is destined to be widely read and deservedly honored.
On May 26, 1985, Christopher Meeks married Carol Anne Fuchs. They have a son, Zachary Edward Meeks.
