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Brooks Hansen is an American novelist, screenwriter, and illustrator best known for his 1995 book The Chess Garden. He was the recipient of the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in 2005. Since 2010, Hansen has lived and worked at the Cate School, where he teaches English and Humanities.[1] He lives with his family in Carpinteria, California.[2]

Brooks Hansen
Born1965 (age 5657)
New York City, New York, US
OccupationNovelist
NationalityAmerican
Alma materHarvard University
Period1990–present
GenreLiterary fiction
Website
brookshansen.com
Brooks Hansen (2022)
Brooks Hansen (2022)

Hansen started his own imprint, Star Pine Books, in 2016.[2]


Writing career


Brooks Hansen was born in New York City in 1965.[2] After graduating from Harvard University, he and Nick Davis, a childhood friend and classmate, co-wrote their first novel, Boone, a biographical account of the fictional Arthur Eton Boone.[3] It was released in 1990 and named a New York Times Notable Book. His next major published work was 1995's The Chess Garden.[4] It was critically acclaimed and named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year, and to the Fall 1995 Barnes & Noble "Discover Great New Writers" program.

His next work, a young adult novel called Caesar's Antlers, which he also illustrated, was criticized as being too erudite for its target audience, with Mark Oppenheimer in review for The New York Times writing that his prose was "too intricate for most adults to follow, let alone listening children".[5] (Featuring a sparrow who nests in a reindeer's antlers, and recommended for ages 8–12 by the publisher, it was reviewed as a children's book, although not a read-aloud.)[5] His 2003 novel The Monsters of St. Helena, a fictional account of Napoleon Bonaparte's final years on St. Helena, was again acclaimed, and named a New York Times Notable Book, as 1999's Perlman's Ordeal had been.[6] He has since written numerous other works.[2] His most recent title The Unknown Woman of the Seine (Delphinium Books) was among the New York Times top selections for historical fiction of 2021.[7]


Works



References


  1. "English Department Faculty". Cate School.
  2. "Brooks Hansen". Brooks Hansen. Blogger.
  3. Corn, Alfred (1990-08-05). "A Stand-Up Genius". The New York Times. Retrieved 2021-03-20.
  4. Parini, Jay (1995-09-24). "Dispatches From the Antipodes". The New York Times. Retrieved 2021-03-20.
  5. Oppenheimer, Mark (1998-04-19). "Children's Books". The New York Times. Retrieved 2021-03-20.
  6. Pye, Michael (2003-02-02). "Voted Onto The Island". The New York Times. Retrieved 2021-03-20.
  7. Becker, Alida (2021-12-03). "The Season's Best New Historical Novels". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-06-16.





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