William T. Vollmann, born in 1956 in Los Angeles, is the author of numerous novels, short story volumes and specialized books which have won him many prizes, for example the Whiting Writers Award and the National Book Award. »Newsday« hails William T. Vollmann as »unconventional- and possibly most exciting and inventive novelist alive«, and the »Washington Post« sees in him »the only novelist who succeeds in filling in the seven-league boots of a […] John Barth, William Gaddis and Thomas Pynchon«. Selected by »The New Yorker« as one of the 20 best American authors, his journalistic work was published in Best American Travel Writing 1999 and in Best American Essays 2000. Vollman is a prestigious journalist and his articles as war correspondent appear in »The New Yorker«, »New York Times Magazine«, »Newsday«, »Spin«, »Esquire« and »Gear«.
Sperrzone Fukushima: Ein Bericht
Suhrkamp Verlag 2011
Hobo Blues
Roman
Suhrkamp Verlag 2009
Afghanistan Picture Show oder Wie ich die Welt rettete
Roman
Suhrkamp Tb. Verlag
Date of Publication: February 2008
Huren für Gloria
Roman
Suhrkamp Verlag 2006