Nathan Hill (writer)

Nathan Hill is an American fiction writer.[2] He won the 2016 Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for his novel The Nix.[3]

Nathan Hill
BornCedar Rapids, Iowa
LanguageEnglish
Alma materUniversity of Iowa University of Massachusetts Amherst[1]
Notable worksThe Nix
Notable awards2016 Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction Los Angeles Times Book Prize

Early life and education

Hill was born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and grew up all over the Midwest, where his grandparents had worked as corn, soybean and cattle farmers. His family moved constantly when he was growing up — around Illinois, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Kansas — as his father worked his way up through management at Kmart.[4]

References
  1. http://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/13-fiction/10755-nix-hill?start=1
  2. "The New Authority in Great Books to Read: Who You Follow on Instagram". The New York Times. Retrieved 2017-08-19.
  3. "L.A. Times Book Prizes winners announced". LA Times. Retrieved 2017-08-19.
  4. Alexandra Alter (26 August 2016). "Nathan Hill Is Compared to John Irving. Irving Compares Him to Dickens". The New York Times. Retrieved 29 August 2017.


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