Gary Braver

Who is Gary Braver?

Gary Goshgarian known by his pen name Gary Braver is an English professor at Northeastern University, United States, where he teaches courses in science fiction, modern bestsellers, horror fiction, and fiction writing.

He is the editor of six college writing textbooks with Longman Publishers as well as editor of the short fiction horror anthology Horrorscape.

His books have been translated into seven languages, and three have been optioned for movies. He is the only writer to have three books simultaneously listed on the top-10 highest customer-rated thrillers on Amazon.com. New York Times bestselling author, Tess Gerritsen, names Gary Braver as "one of the best thriller writers in America".

Before teaching at Northeastern, Braver was a physicist at Raytheon Co. He has a degree in physics from Worcester Polytechnic Institute, an M.A. in English from the University of Connecticut, and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

His fiction and nonfiction pieces have appeared in The Boston Globe, The New York Times, Writer Magazine, The Christian Science Monitor, and the award-winning Thriller 2 Anthology.