Martin Wilson (writer)
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Martin Wilson | |
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 Wilson at the 2017 Texas Book Festival | |
| Born | 1973 (age 51–52) Tuscaloosa, Alabama, U.S. |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Vanderbilt University University of Florida |
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Martin Wilson (born 1973 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama) is an American writer. He is best known for his award-winning debut novel What They Always Tell Us, published in 2008.[1]
A graduate of Vanderbilt University and the University of Florida,[2] he is currently based in New York City, where he works in marketing and publicity for HarperCollins.[2]
What They Always Tell Us won an Alabama Author Award for best young adult book, and was a nominee for children's/young adult literature category at the 2009 Lambda Literary Awards.[2] The novel was also an Indie Next Selection, an ALA-ALSC Rainbow List Selection, and a CCBC Choices Book.[2] His second novel, We Now Return to Regular Life, was published in 2017.[3]
Wilson has also published short stories.[2] In 2010, he contributed an essay about John Donovan's influential LGBT teen novel I'll Get There. It Better Be Worth the Trip to the 2010 book The Lost Library: Gay Fiction Rediscovered.[4]
