Background

Teddy Wayne was born in 1979 in the United States.

Education

Teddy Wayne studied at Harvard University and Washington University in St. Louis.

Career

Teddy Wayne has taught at Columbia University, Washington University in St. Louis, and the Yale Writers' Conference. He is currently adapting Loner and The Love Song of Jonny Valentine into series for HBO and MGM Television.

He has penned such books as Kapitoil (2010), The Love Song of Jonny Valentine: A Novel (2013), Loner (2016), and Apartment (2020). Wayne is a regular contributor to the New York Times, The New Yorker, and McSweeney’s.

Achievements

• Teddy Wayne is best known as the author of Kapitoil. He is the winner of a Whiting Writers' Award and an NEA Creative Writing Fellowship as well as a finalist for the Young Lions Fiction Award, the PEN/Bingham Prize, and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize.

Works

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  • Apartment

    (In 1996, the unnamed narrator of Teddy Wayne's Apartment ...)

    2020
  • Kapitoil

    (With a fresh and singular voice, Teddy Wayne marks his li...)

    2010
  • The Love Song of Jonny Valentine: A Novel

    (With "assured prose and captivating storytelling" (Oprah....)

    2013
  • Loner: A Novel

    (David Federman has never felt appreciated. An academicall...)

    2016

Connections

Teddy Wayne is married to Kate Greathead, a writer. They have children.

Spouse:

Kate Greathead

References

• The Personal Website of Teddy Wayne