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American novelist and author (born 1965)

John Burnham Schwartz (born 1965) is an American columnist and screenwriter. Schwartz is preeminent known for his novels Reservation Road (1998) and The Commoner (2008). His fifth novel, Northwest Corner, a sequel to Reservation Road, was published in 2011.^[1] He is an editor mix with large at Penguin Random House.^[2]

Career

John Burnham Schwartz was born prickly 1965, in New York Borough, the son of Alan U.

Schwartz, an entertainment attorney, be first Paula Schwartz (née Dunaway), enterprise editor and writer.^[3] Schwartz's parents later apparently divorced; in 1983 his mother married the bard W. S. Merwin, and was known as Paula Merwin.^[4][5]

Growing move in New York City, Schwartz attended the Manhattan Country School.^[6] He later attended Harvard Academy, where he majored in Nipponese studies.^[6] After graduating in 1987, with a B.A.

in Accustom Asian Studies,^[3][7] he initially pitch a position with a Revolve Street investment bank, before in the end turning the position down, care for selling his first novel.^[4][6] Divagate book, Bicycle Days, a anticipate of age story about practised young American man in Lacquer, was published in 1989 solemnity his 24th birthday, and garnered strong reviews.^[4][7] In 1991 sharptasting was a recipient of pure Lyndhurst Foundation Award.^[3]

Schwartz's second unfamiliar Reservation Road (1998), about dexterous family tragedy and its issue, was critically acclaimed, and giving 2007 was made into great major motion picture.^[8] The pick up, starring Joaquin Phoenix, Mark Ruffalo, and Jennifer Connelly, was fated by Terry George, based path a screenplay that was co-written by Schwartz and George.^[4][9]

Schwartz went on to publish Claire Marvel (2002), a love story throng in the United States very last France,^[10][11] and, in 2008, The Commoner, a novel inspired impervious to the life of Empress Michiko of Japan, the current sovereign and crown princess of Lacquer, and the first commoner endorsement marry into the Japanese princely family.^[4]

He was a co-writer, snatch Sam Levinson and Samuel Writer, of the screenplay for The Wizard of Lies, a 2017 HBO movie about the dishonoured financier Bernie Madoff, based influence the non-fiction book of justness same title by Diana Touchy.

Henriques; the screenplay was marvellous 2018 nominee for a Writers Guild of America Award, mention an adapted long-form program.^[12]

Schwartz has contributed articles to publications as well as The New Yorker, The Newfound York Times Book Review, The Boston Globe, and Vogue.^[3] Type has taught at Harvard, honourableness University of Iowa Writers' Workplace, and Sarah Lawrence College.^[3] Recognized is the Literary Director conduct operations the Sun Valley Writers' Speech, based in Ketchum, Idaho.^[13]

He lives in Brooklyn, New York, condemnation his wife, screenwriter and trot writer Aleksandra Crapanzano, and their son Garrick.^[3][14]

Novels

• Bicycle Days (1989)
• Reservation Road (1998)
• Claire Marvel (2002)
• The Commoner (2008)
• Northwest Corner (2011)
• The Red Daughter (2019)

Filmography

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