Tom Drury
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His fiction, set in the American midwest, has been described by ''The Guardian'' as having "a kind of dislocation; a 1950s or 60s sensibility dropped into a 90s social landscape." In 2015, ''The Guardian'' called him "an overlooked giant of American comic fiction." ''The Independent'' compared him to Jonathan Franzen, Dave Eggers and David Foster Wallace, and called him "the greatest writer you've never heard of . . . a cult figure, the new Richard Yates", writing: "His anonymity is a literary tragedy."
He has taught writing at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, Yale University, Wesleyan University, Florida State University, and La Salle University. Provided by Wikipedia