- Attended Deep Springs College.
- His fiction often focuses on characters on the fringe of society-outsiders, wanderers-and allows his readers to see into the minds of these otherwise invisible characters.
- Is a professor of creative writing at Reed College in Portland, Oregon.
- Was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at the Stanford Writing Program from 1995 to 1997.
- Is a 2014 Guggenheim Fellow.
- Received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in 1998.
- Formerly taught fiction at the University of Pennsylvania.
- Received a BA in English from Yale University.
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