Background
Ross was born and raised in New York City and attended the Trinity School, where he was a state champion wrestler.
Ross was born and raised in New York City and attended the Trinity School, where he was a state champion wrestler.
His debut novel, Mr. Peanut, was also named a 2010 New York Times Notable Book, as well as one of the best books of the year by The New Yorker, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The New Republic, and The Economist. lieutenant has been translated into 16 languages. His story collection, Ladies and Gentlemen, was included in Kirkus Reviews Best Books of 2011.
A child actor, he appeared in movies (The Seduction of Joe Tynan), numerous commercials and television shows, as well as radio dramas such as The Eternal Light and East.G. Marshall’s Mystery Theater.
He is interrogated by two detectives, Ward Hastroll (an anagram for Rear Window’s killer Lars Thorwald) and Sam Sheppard, of the infamous Doctor Sam Sheppard murder case. The novel is structured like a Möbius strip and combines the work of Medical Corps Escher, Alfred Hitchcock, and true crime wherein the reader is challenged to ascertain which events are real and which are guilty projections of the novel’s characters.
Ross’s story collection, Ladies and Gentlemen, was published in 2011. His nonfiction has been published in The New York Times Book Review, The Daily Beast, The Wall Street Journal, and The Nashville Scene.
His fiction has appeared in The Carolina Quarterly and FiveChapters.