Antoine Wilson

Who is Antoine Wilson?

Antoine Wilson is a Canadian-American novelist and short story writer. He was born in Montreal, Quebec, and later lived in Southern California, Central California, and Saudi Arabia. He attended UCLA and Iowa Writers' Workshop. He currently lives in Los Angeles, where he is a contributing editor of the literary magazine A Public Space.

His debut novel The Interloper, published by Other Press in 2007, grapples with themes of family, crime, and revenge through the lens of an unreliable narrator. Wilson has said that the novel was partly inspired by the murder of his older brother when Wilson was seven years old. The Interloper was a finalist for the Foreword Book of the Year and was named a Book of the Decade by The L Magazine.

His second novel, Panorama City, was published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in 2012. It spent seven weeks on The Los Angeles Times Bestseller list and was widely reviewed. In the New York Times Book Review, Adam Ross noted a shift in Wilson's focus: "If The Interloper was about lighting the way to hell, to paraphrase Milton, here the author’s gaze is directed heavenward, toward sanity and the good in all of us.