David Gilbert (author)

David Gilbert (born 1967 in Paris) is an American author known for the novels & Sons, The Normals, and for Remote Feed, a collection of short stories.

This article is about the American author. For other people with this name, see David Gilbert (disambiguation).
David Gilbert
Born1967
Paris, France
OccupationShort story writer, novelist
NationalityAmerican
Alma materMiddlebury College
University of Montana
Notable works& Sons, The Normals, and Remote Feed
Children3
RelativesS. Parker Gilbert (father)

Career

His published work includes the novels & Sons, The Normals, and Remote Feed, a collection of short stories. His writings have appeared in periodicals such as GQ, Harper's and The New Yorker. Gilbert has cited Franz Kafka, John Cheever, T. S. Eliot, J. D. Salinger and Philip Roth as influences.

Personal life

Gilbert's father was S. Parker Gilbert, the Chairman of Morgan Stanley during the 1980s and his grandfather was Seymour Parker Gilbert, the Assistant Secretary of the Treasury and the Agent General for Reparations to Germany, from October 1924 to May 1930. He grew up on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, graduated from Middlebury College, and earned an MFA in fiction writing from the University of Montana. Gilbert lives in New York City and has three children.

Bibliography
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Novels
  • Gilbert, David. &Sons.
  • Gilbert, David. The Normals.

Collections

Short fiction
Title Year First published in Reprinted in
From a farther room 2013 The New Yorker 89/21 (July 22, 2013)
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