Ian Frazier
Ian "Sandy" Frazier | |
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| Born | Ian Frazier 1951 (age 72–73) Cleveland, Ohio |
| Occupation | Non-fiction writer, humorist |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Harvard University |
| Period | 1974–present |
| Notable works | Great Plains(1989) Coyote v. Acme(1990) Travels in Siberia(2010) |
| Spouse | Jacqueline Carey |
Ian Frazier(born 1951 inCleveland, Ohio) is an American writer andhumorist.He wrote the 1989 non-fiction historyGreat Plains,2010's non-fiction travelogueTravels in Siberia,and works as a writer and humorist forThe New Yorker.[1]
Biography
[edit]Frazier grew up inHudson, Ohio.[2]His father, David Frazier, was a chemist,[3]who worked forSohio;[4][5]his mother, Peggy, was a teacher, as well as an amateur actor and director,[3]who performed in and directed plays in local Ohio theaters.[6]He graduated fromWestern Reserve Academyin 1969 and fromHarvard Universityin 1973.[3]
Writing career
[edit]The New York Timescritic James Gorman described Frazier's 1996 humor collectionCoyote v. Acme(in the title piece,Wile E. Coyoteis suingAcme Corporation,the manufacturer of products such as explosives and rocket-propelled devices purchased by the coyote to aid in hunting the Road Runner; these products always backfire disastrously) as the occasion for "irrepressible laughter in the reader." The piece served as the basis for the filmCoyote vs. Acme,which is set to be claimed as atax write-offbyWarner Bros. Discovery.The film is currently looking for a new distributor.[7] Gorman rates Frazier's first collection, 1986'sDating Your Mom,as "one of the best collections of humor ever published."[8]
Awards
[edit]- 1989Whiting Award
- 1997Thurber Prize for American Humor,for essay collectionCoyote vs. Acme[2]
- 2009 Thurber Prize for American Humor, for essay collectionLamentations of the Father[2][9]
Bibliography
[edit]References
[edit]- ^"Contributors: Ian Frazier".The New Yorker.Archived fromthe originalon December 7, 2010.RetrievedMay 22,2009.
- ^abc"Humorist Ian Frazier, who grew up in Hudson, Ohio, wins another Thurber award".October 6, 2009.The Plain Dealer.Retrieved via Cleveland.com, November 10, 2018.
- ^abc"Ian Frazier."Contemporary Authors Online.Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale, 2017. Retrieved viaBiography In Contextdatabase, November 10, 2018.
- ^Lambert, Craig (September/October 2008). "Seriously Funny: Ian Frazier combines an historian's discipline with an original comic mind".Harvard Magazine.harvardmagazine.com. Retrieved November 10, 2018.
- ^Ian Frazier,Family.New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1994. p. 256.
- ^Ian Frazier,Family.p. 26.
- ^Bergson and Perella, Samantha and Vincent (March 10, 2024)."'Coyote vs. Acme' Writer Samy Burch Says Film May Still Be Released: Conversations Are 'Ongoing,' but We'd Be 'Heartbroken' If It's Shelved ".Indiewire.
- ^James Gorman, "Beep-Beep!", The New York Times, June 23, 1996.
- ^Hartig, Jean (2010). "Thurber House."Poets & Writers Magazine.Vol. 38, no. 2. p. 133 f. Retrieved viaLiterature Resource Centerdatabase, November 10, 2018.
External links
[edit]- Works by or about Ian FrazieratInternet Archive
- Ian Frazier articles for Outside Magazine
- Ian Frazier articles at Byliner
- Ian Frazier on NPR forTravels in SIberia
- Ian Frazier at FSG
- Profile at The Whiting Foundation
- AppearancesonC-SPAN
- Interview with Ian FrazieronWFMU's "The Speakeasy with Dorian" (RealAudio)
- Review ofGone to New York
- Select the RealAudio link by"LAMENTATIONS OF A FATHER"at time 28:42 to hear Ian Frazier read his "Laws Concerning Food and Drink; Household Principles; Lamentations of the Father" on the January 24, 1998Prairie Home Companionbroadcast.
- The famous mock-legal complaintCoyote v. Acme,to which a lawyer made thisreply
- Lambert, Craig (September–October 2008)."Seriously Funny: Ian Frazier combines an historian's discipline with an original comic mind".Harvard Magazine.
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- 1951 births
- Living people
- The Harvard Lampoon alumni
- People from Hudson, Ohio
- The New Yorker people
- The New Yorker staff writers
- Writers from Ohio
- American humorists
- 20th-century American non-fiction writers
- 21st-century American non-fiction writers
- Journalists from Ohio
- 20th-century American male writers
- American male non-fiction writers
- Western Reserve Academy alumni
- 21st-century American male writers
- Members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters