Geoff Dyer

Bio

Geoff Dyer is the author of Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi, and three previous novels, as well as nine non-fiction books. Dyer has won the Somerset Maugham Prize, the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction, a Lannan Literary Award, the International Center of Photography’s 2006 Infinity Award for writing on photography, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ E.M. Forster Award. In 2009 he was named GQ’s Writer of the Year. He won a National Book Critics Circle Award in 2012 and was a finalist in 1998. In 2015 he received a Windham Campbell Prize for non-fiction. His books have been translated into 24 languages. He currently lives in Los Angeles where he is Writer in Residence at the University of Southern California. Here, he discusses paying attention, what it means to jump between genres, writing books as an excuse to learn about things, and the importance and pleasure of endless revision.