Jeremy Poolman
{{Short description|British novelist, biographer and artist}}
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Jeremy Poolman is a British novelist, biographer and artist. His first novel, Interesting Facts about the State of Arizona, won the 1997 Commonwealth Writers' Prize, best first book, UK.
He studied at University College School, and Oxford Brookes University.{{cite web|url=http://authors.simonandschuster.co.uk/Jeremy-Poolman/78172686/author_revealed |title=Jeremy Poolman | Author Revealed at Simon & Schuster |publisher=Authors.simonandschuster.co.uk |accessdate=10 August 2011}}
His work has appeared in The Guardian.{{cite news| url=https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2011/feb/12/red-square-moscow-jeremy-poolman| title=Jeremy Poolman in Red Square, Moscow |work=The Guardian| date= 12 February 2011 }}
He lives in Cornwall.{{cite web|url=http://www.bloomsbury.com/Jeremy-Poolman/authors/699 |title=Bloomsbury Publishing Author Biography: Jeremy Poolman Jeremy Poolman |publisher=Bloomsbury.com |accessdate=10 August 2011}}
Works
- Interesting Facts about the State of Arizona, Faber and Faber, 1996, {{ISBN|978-0-571-17614-4}}
- Audacity's Song, Faber and Faber, 1998, {{ISBN|978-0-571-19200-7}}
- My Kind of America, Bloomsbury, 2000, {{ISBN|978-0-7475-4767-9}}
- Skin, Bloomsbury, 2001, {{ISBN|978-0-7475-5344-1}}
;Non-Fiction
- A Wounded Thing Must Hide: In Search of Libbie Custer, Bloomsbury, 2002, {{ISBN|978-1-58234-121-7}}
- Gypsy Jem Mace: Being One Man's Search for His Forgotten Famous Ancestor Andre Deutsch, 2008, {{ISBN|978-0-233-00225-5}}
- The Road of Bones: A Journey to the Dark Heart of Russia, Simon & Schuster, Limited, 2011, {{ISBN|978-1-84737-647-3}}
References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20110210053206/http://www.jeremypoolman.co.uk/ Author's website]
- [http://literaryfestival.wordpress.com/2011/04/23/jeremy-poolman-the-road-of-bones/ 2011 Surrey Heath Literary Festival]
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Category:20th-century British novelists
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Category:Alumni of Oxford Brookes University
Category:People educated at University College School
Category:British male novelists
Category:20th-century British male writers
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