Geoff Dyer

author

Geoff Dyer is a British author known for his novels and non-fiction works. He was educated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and began his writing career in Brixton, London, in the 1980s. Dyer is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His work spans diverse genres, including fiction, critical essays, and non-fiction studies on photography, travel, and film. He resides in Venice, California. He is the author of several acclaimed titles such as 'Otherwise Known as the Human Condition' and 'The Ongoing Moment', a history of photography.[1,2,3]

Themes

  • photography
  • criticism
  • non-fiction
  • travel
  • literature

Works by Geoff Dyer

  • The Colour of Memory 1989 · Jonathan Cape · book · English
  • But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz 1991 · Jonathan Cape · book · English
  • The Search 1993 · Hamish Hamilton · book · English
  • Paris Trance 1998 · Abacus · book · English
  • Out of Sheer Rage: Wrestling with D. H. Lawrence 1997 · Little, Brown · book · English U.S. edition published in 1998 by North Point Press
  • The Ongoing Moment 2005 · Little, Brown · book · English A book about photographs
  • Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi 2009 · Canongate · book · English
  • Otherwise Known as the Human Condition 2011 · Graywolf Press · book · English Selected essays and reviews
  • The Street Philosophy of Garry Winogrand 2018 · University of Texas Press · book · English ISBN 978-1477310335
  • Homework 2025 · Farrar, Straus and Giroux · book · English ISBN 978-0374616229 Memoir

Awards

  • 1992 Somerset Maugham Award Somerset Maugham Award
  • 2011 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism National Book Critics Circle
  • 2015 Windham–Campbell Literature Prize Windham–Campbell Literature Prize
  • 2006 Infinity Award for Writing on photography International Center of Photography

References

  1. National Portrait Gallery. 2023 link
  2. Wikipedia link
  3. James McMahon. The Guardian. The Guardian. 2021 link