Background
Tom Drury was born as Thomas Jay Drury in 1956 in Iowa, United States.
1980
Iowa City, IA 52242, United States
Tom Drury attended the University of Iowa, where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism in 1980.
1987
Providence, RI 02912, United States
In 1987, Tom Drury earned a Master of Arts degree in English and Creative Writing from Brown University.
2014
American writer Tom Drury poses while attending book fair America on September 14, 2014 in Vincennes, France.
2015
The American writer Tom Drury in France last September.
2015
The American writer Tom Drury in France last September.
2015
199 Chambers St, New York, NY 10007, United States
Aaron L. Gilbert, Keith Kjarval, Anton Yelchin, Zachary Sluser and Tom Drury attend the premiere of "The Driftless Area" during the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival at BMCC Tribeca PAC on April 18, 2015 in New York City.
2015
US author Tom Drury presents his new book, Pacific, during the Leipzig Book Fair 2015 in Leipzig, Germany, 13 March 2015.
2015
Tom Drury
2017
Fidicinstraße 40, 10965 Berlin, Germany
Tom Drury took the audience to Grouse County, an imaginary place somewhere in the Midwest, at his reading at the English Theatre Berlin on September 11, 2017.
2017
Tom Drury, American writer, Erba, Italy, November 2017.
Tom Drury and Mark Haskell Smith
(Welcome to Grouse County a fictional Midwest that is at o...)
Welcome to Grouse County a fictional Midwest that is at once familiar and amusingly eccentric where a thief vacuums the church before stealing the chalice, a lonely woman paints her toenails in a drafty farmhouse, and a sleepless man watches his restless bride scatter their bills beneath the stars. At the heart of The End of Vandalism is an unforgettable love triangle set off by a crime: Sheriff Dan Norman arrests Tiny Darling for vandalizing an anti-vandalism dance and then marries the culprit's ex-wife Louise. So Tiny loses Louise, Louise loses her sense of self, and the three find themselves on an epic journey.
https://www.amazon.com/End-Vandalism-Novel-Tom-Drury/dp/0802142702
1994
(Paul Emmons has his faults envy, lust, naiveté, money lau...)
Paul Emmons has his faults envy, lust, naiveté, money laundering, and art forgery to name but a few. A fallen accountant and scamster, Emmons and wife Mary are exiled abroad, though they enjoy frequent and inadvisable returns to New England, the region of his crimes, to check in on the property they own but cannot claim.
https://www.amazon.com/-/es/gp/product/0802123066/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i2
1998
(In this mesmerizing novel, Tom Drury once again journeys ...)
In this mesmerizing novel, Tom Drury once again journeys to the quiet Midwest to spend an action-packed October weekend in the lives of a precarious family whose members all want something without knowing how to get it, for Charles, an heirloom shotgun, for his wife, Joan, the imaginative life she once knew, for their young son, Micah, a knowledge of the scope and reliability of his world, aided by prowling the empty town at night and for Joan’s daughter, Lyris, a stable foot from which to begin to grow up.
https://www.amazon.com/-/es/gp/product/0802145612/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i3
2000
(The new novel from the award-winning author of The End of...)
The new novel from the award-winning author of The End of Vandalism is a wry and sophisticated heist drama. Set in the rugged region of the Midwest that gives the novel its title, The Driftless Area is the story of Pierre Hunter, a young bartender with unfailing optimism, a fondness for coin tricks, and an uncanny capacity for finding trouble.
https://www.amazon.com/-/es/gp/product/0802143040/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i1
2006
(In Pacific, Tom Drury revisits the community of Grouse Co...)
In Pacific, Tom Drury revisits the community of Grouse County, the setting of his landmark debut, The End of Vandalism. When fourteen-year-old Micah Darling travels to Los Angeles to reunite with the mother who abandoned him seven years ago, he finds himself out of his league in a land of magical freedom. Back in the Midwest, an ethereal young woman comes to Stone City on a mission that will unsettle the lives of everyone she meets including Micah’s half-sister, Lyris, and his father, Tiny, a petty thief. An investigation into the stranger’s identity uncovers a darkly disturbed life, as parallel narratives of the comic and tragic, the mysterious and quotidian, unfold in both the country and the city.
https://www.amazon.com/-/es/gp/product/0802121179/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i4
2013
Tom Drury was born as Thomas Jay Drury in 1956 in Iowa, United States.
Tom Drury attended the University of Iowa, where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism in 1980. Later in 1987, he earned a Master of Arts degree in English and Creative Writing from Brown University.
At the beginning of his career, Tom Drury worked as a reporter for several papers around New England. In 2001, he joined Wesleyan University in Middletown, where he served as a visiting lecturer. He has also been a speaker at writer's conferences and has taught at Florida State University, La Salle University, Yale University and the University of Southern Mississippi. He has worked as a journalist or editor for publications such as Providence Journal, St. Petersburg Times, the Litchfield County Times, the Mississippi Review, and The New York Times Magazine.
As the author, Tom Drury wrote In Our State in 1989. He also wrote The End of Vandalism in 1994, The Black Brook in 1998, and Hunts in Dreams in 2000. His most recent book, Pacific was written in 2013. He has also been a contributor of short stories, essays to periodicals, and to the anthology. Additionally, he co-wrote a screenplay for the film adaptation of The Driftless Area, that came out in 2015.
(In this mesmerizing novel, Tom Drury once again journeys ...)
2000(Welcome to Grouse County a fictional Midwest that is at o...)
1994(In Pacific, Tom Drury revisits the community of Grouse Co...)
2013(The new novel from the award-winning author of The End of...)
2006(Paul Emmons has his faults envy, lust, naiveté, money lau...)
1998Quotations: "If you become a creative writer with the idea I am going to make a whole lot of money, then maybe this isn’t the best choice for you. I don’t really think in terms of making something that is going to be bought everywhere because I don’t read those things. My writing is a process in which I try my best to make good sentences and a sequence of events that is compelling and believable".
Tom is married to Christian. They have one daughter.