Teddy Wayne

Photograph by Kate Greathead

About The Author

Teddy Wayne, the author of Loner, The Love Song of Jonny Valentine, and Kapitoil, is the winner of a Whiting Writers’ Award and an NEA Fellowship as well as a finalist for the Young Lions Fiction Award, PEN/Bingham Prize, and Dayton Literary Peace Prize. He writes regularly for The New Yorker, The New York Times, Vanity Fair, McSweeney’s, and elsewhere. He lives in New York.

Books by Teddy Wayne

Loner

A Novel

“Powerful.” —Maureen Corrigan, NPR’s Fresh Air

Named a best book of the year by NPR, Kirkus Reviews, and BookPage
The Love Song of Jonny Valentine

A Novel

One of the most critically acclaimed books of the year, Teddy Wayne’s second novel is a scathing and brilliant novel about celebrity culture, told through the voice of an eleven-year-old pop singer and megastar—an enduring yet timely portrait of the American dream gone awry.<...
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