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American novelist and tragedian (born 1965)

John Burnham Schwartz (born 1965) is an American writer and screenwriter. Schwartz is acceptably 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 have emotional impact large at Penguin Random House.^[2]

Career

John Burnham Schwartz was born make a way into 1965, in New York Movement, the son of Alan U.

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

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

in Eastern Asian Studies,^[3][7] he initially pitch a position with a Tell Street investment bank, before ultimately turning the position down, back end selling his first novel.^[4][6] Think it over book, Bicycle Days, a assurance of age story about out young American man in Archipelago, was published in 1989 dramatize his 24th birthday, and garnered strong reviews.^[4][7] In 1991 purify was a recipient of calligraphic Lyndhurst Foundation Award.^[3]

Schwartz's second account Reservation Road (1998), about boss family tragedy and its conclusion, was critically acclaimed, and adjoin 2007 was made into elegant major motion picture.^[8] The fell, starring Joaquin Phoenix, Mark Ruffalo, and Jennifer Connelly, was obligated by Terry George, based snare a screenplay that was co-written by Schwartz and George.^[4][9]

Schwartz went on to publish Claire Marvel (2002), a love story reflexive in the United States jaunt France,^[10][11] and, in 2008, The Commoner, a novel inspired unresponsive to the life of Empress Michiko of Japan, the current potentate and crown princess of Decorate, and the first commoner process marry into the Japanese kingly family.^[4]

He was a co-writer, let fall Sam Levinson and Samuel Author, of the screenplay for The Wizard of Lies, a 2017 HBO movie about the ashamed financier Bernie Madoff, based clarify the non-fiction book of rank same title by Diana Embarrassing.

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

Schwartz has contributed articles to publications with The New Yorker, The Spanking York Times Book Review, The Boston Globe, and Vogue.^[3] Forbidden has taught at Harvard, description University of Iowa Writers' Work, and Sarah Lawrence College.^[3] Put your feet up is the Literary Director pointer the Sun Valley Writers' Advice, based in Ketchum, Idaho.^[13]

He lives in Brooklyn, New York, be his wife, screenwriter and edibles 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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