David Gilbert (author)

David Gilbert
Born 1967
Paris, France
Occupation Short story writer, novelist
Nationality American
Alma mater Middlebury College
University of Montana
Notable works & Sons, The Normals, and Remote Feed
Children 3

David Gilbert (born 1967 in Paris) is an American author known for the novels & Sons, The Normals, and Remote Feed, a collection of short stories.

Career

His published work includes the novels & Sons, The Normals, and Remote Feed, a collection of short stories. His writings have appeared in periodicals such as GQ, Harper's and The New Yorker. Gilbert has cited Franz Kafka, John Cheever, T. S. Eliot, J. D. Salinger and Philip Roth as influences.

Personal life

Gilbert's father was S. Parker Gilbert, the Chairman of Morgan Stanley during the 1980s and his grandfather was Seymour Parker Gilbert, the Assistant Secretary of the Treasury and the Agent General for Reparations to Germany, from October 1924 to May 1930. He grew up on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, graduated from Middlebury College, and earned an MFA in fiction writing from the University of Montana. Gilbert lives in New York City, is married, and has three children.

Bibliography

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Novels

Collections

Short fiction

Title Year First published in Reprinted in
From a farther room 2013 The New Yorker 89/21 (July 22, 2013)

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