Jay McInerney Biography

John McInerney is an American writer. His novels include Bright Lights Big City; Ransom; Story of My Life; Brightness Falls; and The Last of the Savages. He was the wine columnist for House & Garden magazine and his essays on wine have been collected in Bacchus & Me (2000) and A Hedonist in the Cellar (2006). His most recent novel is titled The Good Life published in 2006 and since April 2010 he is 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 The New York Times. McInerney was born in Hartford Connecticut studied writing with Raymond Carver and once worked as a fact-checker at The New Yorker. The novel established McInerney's reputation as part of a new generation of writers. Labelled the 'literary brat pack' in a 1987 article in the Village Voice McInerney Bret Easton Ellis and Tama Janowitz were presented as the new face of literature: young iconoclastic and fresh. Five novels followed in rapid succession: Ransom Story of My Life Brightness Falls The Last of the Savages and Model Behavior.

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