Adam Rapp is an award-winning playwright, screenwriter, director and novelist. His new novel, “The Year of Endless Sorrows,” is available now from Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

His many plays include “Red Light Winter,” “Blackbird,” “Nocturne,” “Finer Noble Gases” and “Essential Self-Defense.”

“Red Light Winter” was the first play to completely sell-out Steppenwolf’s Garage Theater and won the Joseph Jefferson Award for Best New Work. It then transferred to the Barrow Street Theatre for a six-month Off-Broadway commercial run, where it received a Citation from the American Theatre Critics Association, a Lucille Lortel Nomination for Best New Play, and two OBIE Awards.

He wrote and directed the film “Winter Passing,” starring Ed Harris, Will Ferrell, and Zooey Deschanel, which received its world premiere as an Official Selection of the 2005 Toronto International Film Festival.

Rapp has been the recipient of the Herbert & Patricia Brodkin Scholarship, two Lincoln Center le Compte de Nuoy Awards, a fellowship to the Camargo Foundation in Cassis, France, the 1999 Princess Grace Award for Playwrighting, a 2000 Roger L. Stevens Award from the Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays, a 2000 Suite Residency with Mabou Mines, the 2001 Helen Merrill Award for Emerging Playwrights, Boston’s Elliot Norton Award, was short-listed for the 2003 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing, named a finalist for the 2006 Pulitzer Prize, and was most recently honored with the 2006 Princess Grace Statue as well as a Lucille Lortel Playwriting Fellowship.

He lives in New York.