William T. Vollmann is an American novelist and essayist. He was born in Los Angeles in 1959 and currently lives in Sacramento, California. While writing his first novel You Bright and Risen Angels, Vollmann worked as a computer programmer. He travelled to Afghanistan during the Soviet invasion, writing about the experience in An Afghanistan picture show, or, How I Saved the World. He has published travel writing for Spin Magazine as well as The New Yorker. In early 2004 (after many delays) McSweeneys published Rising Up and Rising Down, a 3,300 page, seven volume treatise on violence; a single-volume condensed version was published at the end of the year.
Partial Bibliography
- You Bright And Risen Angels (1987)
- Rainbow Stories (1989)
- The Ice Shirt (1990)
- Whores For Gloria (1991)
- 13 Stories And 13 Epitaphs (1991)
- An Afghanistan Picture Show (1992)
- Fathers And Crows (1992)
- Butterfly Stories (1993)
- The Rifles (1994)
- The Atlas (1996)
- The Royal Family (2000)
- Argall (2001)
- Rising Up And Rising Down (2004)
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