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Bryan Washington Author

Bryan Washington is the author of the story collection Lot and the novels Memorial and Family Meal. A National Book Award 5 Under 35 Honoree, he is the winner of the Dylan Thomas Prize, the NYPL Young Lions Fiction Award, two Lambda Literary Awards, and has been a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, and the James Tait Black Prize. A frequent contributor to the New Yorker and the New York Times, his writing has also appeared in Granta, New York Times Magazine, Time, GQ, and Esquire, among many other places. He lives in Tokyo.