Joseph O'Neill (born 1964)
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Joseph O'Neill is an Irish novelist and non-fiction writer.
O'Neill was born in Cork, Ireland, in 1964, and grew up in The Netherlands. He is a graduate of Girton College, Cambridge, and a barrister at the English Bar, where he practised for ten years, principally in the field of business law. He now lives in New York with his wife, Vogue editor Sally Singer, and their three sons.
O'Neill is the author of three novels, the most recent of which, Netherland, was published in May 2008 and was featured on the cover of the New York Times Book Review[1] where it was called, "the wittiest, angriest, most exacting and most desolate work of fiction we’ve yet had about life in New York and London after the World Trade Center fell". He is also the author of a non-fiction book, Blood-Dark Track: A Family History, which was a New York Times Notable Book for 2002 and a book of the year for the Economist and the Irish Times.
O'Neill writes literary and cultural criticism, most regularly for the Atlantic Monthly.
[edit] Works
Novels
Netherland (Pantheon; Fourth Estate) (2008)
The Breezes (Faber & Faber) (1996)
This Is The Life (Faber & Faber; Farrar Straus & Giroux) (1991)
Non-fiction
Blood-Dark Track: A Family History (Granta Books) (2001)
Short Fiction
See stories in
Faber Book of Best New Irish Short Stories (Ed., David Marcus) (Faber & Faber) (2007)
Dislocation: Stories from a New Ireland (Ed., Caroline Walsh) (Carroll & Graf) (2003)
Phoenix Irish Short Stories (Ed., David Marcus) (1999)
Journalism
Archive of pieces for New York magazine
The Ascent of Man (Granta, issue 72, Winter 2000)
[edit] References
New York Times [1]
New York Review of Books [2]
London Review of Books [3]
Blood-Dark Track is the subject of an essay in Collective Traumas: Memories of War and Conflict in 20th Century Europe, Mithander, Conny / Sundholm, John / Holmgren Troy, Maria (eds.) [4]
Joseph O'Neill at Irish Writers Online [5]
