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William Giraldi

Born

in The United States

May 11, 1974

Website

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Genre

Literature & Fiction, Memoir

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William Giraldi is author of the novels Busy Monsters, Hold the Dark (now a Netflix film), and About Face, the memoir The Hero's Body, and a collection of literary criticism, American Audacity (all published by W.W. Norton). He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, an Artist Fellowship from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and is Master Lecturer in the Writing Program at Boston University. ...more

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	Hold the Dark 3.44 avg rating — 2,785 ratings — published 2014 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Busy Monsters 3.29 avg rating — 750 ratings — published 2011 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Hero's Body: A Memoir 3.74 avg rating — 146 ratings — published 2016 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Annotated Poe by Edgar Allan Poe, Kevin J. Hayes (Introduction), William Giraldi (Foreword) 4.54 avg rating — 91 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	American Audacity: In Defense of Literary Daring 4.13 avg rating — 96 ratings — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	About Face 3.14 avg rating — 70 ratings — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Let There Be Darkness by William Giraldi, Gary Tiedemann (Reader) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Busy Monsters: A Novel by William Giraldi, Jeff Allin (Narrator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	[Hold the Dark] [By: Giraldi, Book Reviewer William] [February, 2015] by William Giraldi, Unknown Author 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Le corps du héros by William Giraldi, Vincent Raynaud (Translator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“I looked up fairness in the dictionary and it was not there.”
― William Giraldi

tags: definition, fair, fairness, language, words

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“For a time I hovered in that peaceful dreamland where nothing at all works properly but everything is okay.”
― William Giraldi

tags: dream, peace, rest, sleep

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“He knew what haunted meant. The dead don’t haunt the living. The living haunt themselves.”
― William Giraldi, Hold the Dark

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