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Kevin Brockmeier is the author of the novels The Brief History of the Dead and The Truth About Celia; the children's novels City of Names and Grooves- A Kind of Mystery; and the story collections Things That Fall from the Sky and The View from the Seventh Layer. In addition to The New Yorker, he has published in The New York Times, The Georgia Review, McSweeney's, Zoetrope, The Oxford American, The Best American Short Stories, The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, and the O. Henry- Prize Stories anthology. He has received the Borders Original Voices Award, the Chicago Tribune's Nelson Algren Award, an Italo Calvino Short Fiction Award, a James Michener-Paul Engle Fellowship, three O. Henry Awards (one, a first prize), the PEN USA Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and an NEA Grant. He's the 2009 guest editor for the anthology series Best American Fantasy 3 and was named one of Granta magazine's Best Young American Novelists. His work has been translated into fifteen languages. Brockmeier lives in Little Rock, Arkansas, where he was raised.
<p> Lush. . . . At once dark and profound. . . . [ The Illumination ] never fails to be deeply felt and precisely observed. -- The New York Times Book Review <br> A beautiful novel. . . . Brockmeier is a dazzling stylist. -- The Washington Post Book World <br> Stunningly original . . . this gorgeously written book will still stay with [readers] long after the last page is turned. -- The Oregonian <br> Show[s] us the astonishment of life as it is really being lived. -- The Boston Globe <br> Moving. . . . Skillfully explores the relationship between love and memory. -- The New Yorker <br> The depth of [Brockmeier's] scrutiny makes his fiction glow. -- The Plain Dealer <br> Brockmeier's characters are wonderful, and his images are dazzling. -- Detroit Free Press <br> The Illumination imagines a real universe of pain and pleasure, connection and disconnection, and quest for meaning that defines human experience delightfully anew. -- The Miami Herald <br> <br> Brockmeier's consistently arresting observations have the throb of lived--rather than merely imagined--experience. . . . In The Illumination it isn't our agonies and discomforts that define us, but the selves we build in response to them. --Salon <br> Brockmeier's work has always been characterized by his crystalline and surprising descriptions. . . . Brilliant. . . . Thorough and honest. -- Southern Literary Review <br> <br> Lyrical. . . . Both the quotidian warmth of the notebook and the increasingly incidental shimmer of physical suffering draw the characters--and us--into the complex and vivid consideration of some of the fundamental questions that come with being human. -- The Times Literary Supplement (London) <br> [A] sunlit novel. -- Time Out Chicago <br> <br> Fresh and ingenious. . . . Brockmeier has one of those imaginations that churns out picture-perfect imagery. -- Elle <br> Brockmeier's book positively sparkles . . . We've never re
