Charles Bock is the author of the new memoir, I WILL DO BETTER, as well as the novels Alice & Oliver and Beautiful Children, which was a New York Times bestseller and Notable Book, and which won the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Newsweek, People, The Believer, Vice, the Los Angeles Times, Slate, Writer’s Digest, and in numerous anthologies. He has received fellowships from the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, Yaddo, UCross, and the Vermont Studio Center. Charles is a graduate of the Bennington Writing Seminars. He lives with his daughter in New York City.
To listen to Charles and Terry Gross on Fresh Air: click here
To read more about Charles:
New York Times 2016 profile click here
NYT magazine 2008 profile click here
Charles’s Agent is Barbara Jones: bj@skagency.com.
Inquiries: cbock1999@gmail.com
Photo by Beowulf Sheehan.