ウェルズ・タワー

(https://www.shinchosha.co.jp/writer/4120/)

バンクーバー生まれ。ノースカロライナに育つ。

ウェスリアン大学で人類学と社会学を学んだ後、コロンビア大学創作科で修士号を取得。

2002年に短篇「茶色い海岸」でパリス・レビュー新人賞を受賞。『奪い尽くされ、焼き尽くされ』の表題作は、ジュンパ・ラヒリやアンソニー・ドーアの作品とともに『The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories』に収録された。『奪い尽くされ、焼き尽くされ』はフランク・オコナー賞最終候補となり、ニューヨーク公共図書館ヤング・ライオン賞を受賞、9カ国語に翻訳された。

現在、コロンビア大学で教鞭を執るかたわら、ニューヨーク・タイムズ、ニューヨーカー、マクスウィーニーズ、パリス・レビュー等に小説およびノンフィクションを寄稿している。ブルックリンおよびノース・カロライナ在住。

• 『奪い尽くされ、焼き尽くされ』藤井光訳、新潮社、新潮クレスト・ブックス、2010年7月

• "Who Wants to Shoot an Elephant?", GQ, October 2, 2017
• "No Amount of Traffic or Instagrammers or Drunks Can Take the Magic Out of (Semi-) Wilderness", Outside, June 7, 2016
• "The Old Man at Burning Man", GQ, August 31, 2015
• "The Great Paper Caper", GQ, November 1, 2014
• "From Wells Tower’s ‘The Dance Contest'", McSweeney's, Issue 44
• "The Elvis Impersonator, the Karate Instructor, a Fridge Full of Severed Heads, and the Plot 2 Kill the President", GQ, September 29, 2013
• "In Gold We Trust", GQ, January 6, 2012
• "Welcome to the Far East Conference", GQ, April 17, 2011
• "Moto", ESPN, March 2, 2011
• "Own Goal", Harper's Magazine, June 2010
• Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned: Stories, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2009
• "The Thing with Feathers", Outside, March 1, 2006
• "The Brown Coast," The Paris Review, Spring 2002 (No. 161)
• "Retreat," McSweeney's, Issue 30 (March 2009)
• "Executors of Important Energies", McSweeney's, Issue 14 (September 2004)
• "Down Through The Valley", The Paris Review, September 2001 (No. 159)
• "Leopard", The New Yorker, November 10, 2008
• "Door In Your Eye", A Public Space, Winter 2008 (Issue 05)
• "Wild America", Vice, December 2, 2000
• "On the Show", Harper's Magazine, May 2007
• "Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned", Fence, Fall/Winter 2002 (Vol. 4, No. 2)

• David Sedaris Reads Wells Tower for The New Yorker fiction podcast
• An Interview with Wells Tower, The Brooklyn Review
• "Books to give you hope: Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned", The Guardian
• Wells Tower at Macmillan Books
• Review of Everything Ravaged Everything Burned by Michiko Kakutani, from The New York Times
• The World We Live In Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned review by Deborah Eisenberg from The New York Review of Books
• An Interview with Wells Tower on KRUI's The Lit Show
• The Still Lives of Wells Tower by Paul Maliszewski, from The Brooklyn Rail