John Griesemer's fiction has been published in Glimmertrain, Gettysburg Review, Threepenny Review and elsewhere. He has worked as a mental hospital orderly, a fisherman and a journalist. He is an actor and has appeared on and off Broadway and in television and film, including Malcolm X, Days of Thunder, and The Crucible. He lives with his family in New Hampshire. His first novel, No One Thinks of Greenland, was published by Black Swan in May 2002.
A riveting read - big, bold, rambunctious and very rewarding -- Richard Russo, author of EMPIRE FALLS Griesemer's energetic plotting and prose mirror the vigour of the age he describes New York Times Ambition, failure, triumph, love, betrayal, farce, and spirt-conjuring - these are some of the subjects powerfully animated in this grand novel. John Griesemer is a masterful writer -- Joanna Scott, author of ARROGANCE Griesemer's novel has the courage of ambition and deserves serious praise for that alone Time Out Capacious, gutsy and gratifying -- Joseph O'Connor, author of STAR OF THE SEA