Teddy Wayne is the author of the novel “Kapitoil” (Harper Perennial).
Jonathan Franzen said ”Kapitoil” is ”one of those uncommon novels that really is novel. Though the storytelling is conventional, it is satisfyingly so, and the book’s estimable young narrator is a human type whom nobody until Wayne was ever inspired to write about.”
The Boston Globe raved that “Wayne has written one of the best novels of my generation… Why did 9/11 happen, and why do we continue to respond so blindly? Wayne answers these questions better than Mohsin Hamid or Joseph O’Neill, the best authors of this genre until now… Wayne has completely foreseen and transcended the exhaustion of the 9/11 genre.”
His work has also appeared in The New Yorker, the New York Times, Vanity Fair, Time, Esquire, McSweeney’s and the Wall Street Journal, among other publications. In 2010, Wayne received an NEA Creative Writing Fellowship.
Wayne is a graduate of Harvard and Washington University in St. Louis, where he taught fiction and creative nonfiction writing. He lives in New York.
Visit him online at www.teddywayne.com.
