John Haskell (author)

John Haskell (born February 10, 1958) is an American writer and editor.

John Haskell
Born	(1958-02-10) February 10, 1958 (age 67)
Occupation	Novelist, essayist, short-story writer
Nationality	American
Website
www.johnhaskell.net

He is the author of a short-story collection, I Am Not Jackson Pollock (FSG, 2003),^[1] and the novels The Complete Ballet: A Fictional Essay in Five Acts (Graywolf Press, 2017),^[2] Out of My Skin (FSG, 2009),^[3] and American Purgatorio (FSG, 2005).^[4] His stories and essays have appeared on the radio (The Next Big Thing,^[5] Studio 360), in books (The Show You'll Never Forget, Heavy Rotation, All the More Real), and in publications including A Public Space,^[6] n+1,^[7] Conjunctions, McSweeney's^[8]) and Vice.^[9]

Haskell has taught writing and literature at Columbia University,^[10] Cal Arts, and the Leipzig University. He is the recipient of a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation.^[11]

Works

Novels

• The Complete Ballet: A Fictional Essay in Five Acts (Graywolf Press, 2017)
• Out of My Skin: A Novel (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009)
• American Purgatorio: A Novel (FSG, 2005)

Short-Story Collections

• I Am Not Jackson Pollock: Stories (FSG, 2003)