Jay McInerney

Novelist, Author

1955 –

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Who is Jay McInerney?

John Barrett McInerney Jr. is an American writer and food critic. His novels include Bright Lights, Big City, Ransom, Story of My Life, Brightness Falls, and The Last of the Savages. He edited The Penguin Book of New American Voices, wrote the screenplay for the 1988 film adaptation of Bright Lights, Big City, and co-wrote the screenplay for the television film Gia, which starred Angelina Jolie. He was the wine columnist for House & Garden magazine, and his essays on wine have been collected in Bacchus & Me and A Hedonist in the Cellar. His most recent novel is titled The Good Life, published in 2006, and since April 2010 he has been a wine columnist for The Wall Street Journal. In 2009, he published a book of short stories which spanned his entire career, entitled How It Ended, which was named one of the 10 best books of the year by Janet Maslin of The New York Times.

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Born
Jan 13, 1955
Hartford
Spouses
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Education
  • Williams College
  • Syracuse University
Lived in
  • Hartford

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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