Background
Garth Greenwell was born on March 19, 1978, in Louisville, Kentucky, United States. When Greenwell’s parents separated, he went to live with his mother.
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Portrait photo of Garth Greenwell.
4000 M-137, Interlochen, MI 49643, United States
Garth Greenwell graduated from Interlochen Arts Academy in Interlochen, Michigan, in 1996.
26 Gibbs St, Rochester, NY 14604, United States
Garth Greenwell studied at the Eastman School of Music.
735 Anderson Hill Rd, Purchase, NY 10577, United States
Garth Greenwell received a Bachelor of Arts in Literature with a minor in Lesbian and Gay Studies from the State University of New York at Purchase in 2001.
1 Brookings Dr, St. Louis, MO 63130, United States
Garth Greenwell received his Master of Fine Arts from Washington University in St. Louis.
Cambridge, MA, United State
Garth Greenwell received a Master of Arts in English and American Literature from Harvard University, and also began Doctor of Philosophy coursework there but abandoned it realizing that he needed to write more creatively.
1998
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Garth Greenwell, right, in 1998 with his accompanist.
2017
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Portrait photo of Garth Greenwell with a dog.
2018
1000 Holt Avenue Winter Park, FL 32789 United States
Portrait photo of Garth Greenwell.
2018
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Portrait photo of Garth Greenwell.
2018
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Portrait photo of Garth Greenwell by David Levene.
2019
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Portrait photo of Garth Greenwell by Bill Adams.
1998
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Garth Greenwell, right, in 1998 with his accompanist.
2017
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Portrait photo of Garth Greenwell with a dog.
2018
1000 Holt Avenue Winter Park, FL 32789 United States
Portrait photo of Garth Greenwell.
2018
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Portrait photo of Garth Greenwell.
2018
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Portrait photo of Garth Greenwell by David Levene.
2019
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Portrait photo of Garth Greenwell by Bill Adams.
4000 M-137, Interlochen, MI 49643, United States
Garth Greenwell graduated from Interlochen Arts Academy in Interlochen, Michigan, in 1996.
26 Gibbs St, Rochester, NY 14604, United States
Garth Greenwell studied at the Eastman School of Music.
735 Anderson Hill Rd, Purchase, NY 10577, United States
Garth Greenwell received a Bachelor of Arts in Literature with a minor in Lesbian and Gay Studies from the State University of New York at Purchase in 2001.
1 Brookings Dr, St. Louis, MO 63130, United States
Garth Greenwell received his Master of Fine Arts from Washington University in St. Louis.
Cambridge, MA, United State
Garth Greenwell received a Master of Arts in English and American Literature from Harvard University, and also began Doctor of Philosophy coursework there but abandoned it realizing that he needed to write more creatively.
(On an unseasonably warm autumn day, an American newly arr...)
On an unseasonably warm autumn day, an American newly arrived in a foreign city pays a young man for sex. Over the next months, as what at first seems an uncomplicated transaction deepens into something more intricate and unnerving, his discovery of the geography and griefs of an unfamiliar country is accompanied by the unfolding of Mitko's own narrative, his private history of illness, exploitation, and want. The story of a desire that grows increasingly ambivalent, poised between submission, need, and resentment, Mitko is a powerful meditation on the chances of history and privilege, on mutual predation, and on our inability to know with any certainty the natures of others or our own fugitive selves.
https://www.amazon.com/Mitko-Miami-University-Press-Fiction/dp/145076214X/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=Garth+Greenwell&qid=1578561622&sr=8-3
2011
(On an unseasonably warm autumn day, an American teacher e...)
On an unseasonably warm autumn day, an American teacher enters a public bathroom beneath Sofia’s National Palace of Culture. There he meets Mitko, a charismatic young hustler, and pays him for sex. He returns to Mitko again and again over the next few months, drawn by hunger and loneliness and risk, and finds himself ensnared in a relationship in which lust leads to mutual predation, and tenderness can transform into violence. As he struggles to reconcile his longing with the anguish it creates, he’s forced to grapple with his own fraught history, the world of his southern childhood where to be queer was to be a pariah. There are unnerving similarities between his past and the foreign country he finds himself in, a country whose geography and griefs he discovers as he learns more of Mitko’s own narrative, his private history of illness, exploitation, and want. What Belongs to You is a stunning debut novel of desire and its consequences. With lyric intensity and startling eroticism, Garth Greenwell has created an indelible story about the ways in which our pasts and cultures, our scars and shames can shape who we are and determine how we love.
https://www.amazon.com/What-Belongs-You-Garth-Greenwell-ebook/dp/B010M6BZV4/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=Garth+Greenwell&qid=1578561622&sr=8-2
2016
(In the highly anticipated follow-up to his beloved debut,...)
In the highly anticipated follow-up to his beloved debut, What Belongs to You, Garth Greenwell deepens his exploration of foreignness, obligation, and desire Sofia, Bulgaria, a landlocked city in southern Europe, stirs with hope and impending upheaval. Soviet buildings crumble, wind scatters sand from the far south, and political protesters flood the streets with song. In this atmosphere of disquiet, an American teacher navigates a life transformed by the discovery and loss of love. As he prepares to leave the place he’s come to call home, he grapples with the intimate encounters that have marked his years abroad, each bearing uncanny reminders of his past. A queer student’s confession recalls his own first love, a stranger’s seduction devolves into paternal sadism, and a romance with another foreigner opens, and heals old wounds. Each echo reveals startling insights about what it means to seek connection: with those we love, with the places we inhabit, and with our own fugitive selves. Cleanness revisits and expands the world of Garth Greenwell’s beloved debut, What Belongs to You, declared “an instant classic” by The New York Times Book Review. In exacting, elegant prose, he transcribes the strange dialects of desire, cementing his stature as one of our most vital living writers.
https://www.amazon.com/Cleanness-Garth-Greenwell/dp/0374124582/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Garth+Greenwell&qid=1578561622&sr=8-1
2020
Garth Greenwell was born on March 19, 1978, in Louisville, Kentucky, United States. When Greenwell’s parents separated, he went to live with his mother.
Garth Greenwell graduated from Interlochen Arts Academy in Interlochen, Michigan, in 1996. He studied at the Eastman School of Music and received a Bachelor of Arts in Literature with a minor in Lesbian and Gay Studies from the State University of New York at Purchase in 2001. He received his Master of Fine Arts from Washington University in St. Louis, and Master of Arts in English and American Literature from Harvard University, and also began Doctor of Philosophy coursework there but abandoned it realizing that he needed to write more creatively.
After graduation Greenwell moved to Ann Arbor to teach high school and stayed for three years before moving to Bulgaria to teach Bulgarian high school students, giving him the chance to live abroad. It was there that Greenwell penned his debut novel, What Belongs to You, a tale published in January 2016 that takes place in Bulgaria.
Greenwell's first novella, Mitko, won the Miami University Press Novella Prize and was a finalist for the Edmund White Debut Fiction Award as well as the Lambda Award. His short fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, A Public Space, VICE, Yale Review, Boston Review, Salmagundi, Michigan Quarterly Review, and Poetry International and he has written criticism for The New Yorker, the London Review of Books, and the New York Times Book Review, among others. A new book of fiction, Cleanness, is forthcoming from FSG in early 2020.
Garth Greenwell is the author of What Belongs to You, which won the British Book Award for Debut of the Year, was longlisted for the National Book Award, and was a finalist for six other awards, including the PEN/Faulkner Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice, it was named a Best Book of 2016 by over fifty publications in nine countries and is being translated into a dozen languages.
(In the highly anticipated follow-up to his beloved debut,...)
2020(On an unseasonably warm autumn day, an American teacher e...)
2016(On an unseasonably warm autumn day, an American newly arr...)
2011In its article, "Of LGBT, Life and Literature," the Sofia Echo credits Greenwell's publications with bringing much needed attention to the LGBT experience in Bulgaria and to other English-speaking audiences through various broadcasts, interviews, blog posts, and reviews.
Garth Greenwell is an open gay.
There is no information on Garth Greenwell having a family of his own.
