 | Ian Frazier |
New Yorker magazine writer and humorist Ian Frazier, the John Christophe Schlesinger Visiting Writer at Yale, will give a public reading on Thursday, Nov. 10, at 7 p.m. in Rm. 102 of Linsly-Chittenden Hall, 63 High St.
A native of Cleveland, Ohio, the author received his B.A. from Harvard in 1973 and joined The New Yorker staff the following year. He has been a regular contributor to the magazine ever since.
Frazier is the author of eight books, from his first published volume "Dating Your Mom" to "Gone to New York: Adventures in the City," released by Farrar, Straus and Giroux on Nov. 3.
When "Dating Your Mom," a collection of 25 humorous essays, was published in 1986, Newsweek's Walter Clemons wrote of Frazier, "He may be the best master of gentle laid-back befuddlement since Benchley, who had a great gift of being funny without being caught working at it."
His other books include "Nobody Better, Better Than Nobody," eclectic accounts of American eccentricities, and his critically acclaimed best-seller "Great Plains," a travelogue of America's heartland. "Great Plains" helped to establish his reputation as "one of the best of his generation of the New Yorker writers," in the words of The Washington Post's Charles Trueheart.
"Coyote v. Acme," a collection of Frazier's humor essays which received the inaugural Thurber Prize for American Humor, was published in 1996. It was followed by "On the Rez" (2000), an examination of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, and "The Fish's Eye" (2002), a collection of 17 essays about angling.
Frazier's reading, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by the Department of English and the John Christophe Schlesinger Visiting Writer Fund, established by Richard and Sheila Schlesinger in memory of their son.
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