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]
- photography
- criticism
- non-fiction
- travel
- literature
Books
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The Ongoing Moment€15.00
Works by Geoff Dyer
- 1989 The Colour of Memory
- 1991 But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz
- 1993 The Search
- 1998 Paris Trance
- 1997 Out of Sheer Rage: Wrestling with D. H. Lawrence U.S. edition published in 1998 by North Point Press
- 2005 The Ongoing Moment A book about photographs
- 2009 Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi
- 2011 Otherwise Known as the Human Condition Selected essays and reviews
- 2018 The Street Philosophy of Garry Winogrand
- 2025 Homework Memoir
Awards
- 1992 Somerset Maugham Award
- 2011 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism
- 2015 Windham–Campbell Literature Prize
- 2006 Infinity Award for Writing on photography