Brandon Taylor is the author of the novels The Late Americans and Real Life, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize, and named a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice and a Science + Literature Selected Title by the National Book Foundation. His collection Filthy Animals, a US bestseller, was awarded the Story Prize and shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize. He is the 2022-2023 Mary Ellen von der Heyden Fellow at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers. He tweets at @blgtylr, where he has 90k followers, and his newsletter can be found at- blgtylr.substack.com.
The Late Americans assures and deepens Taylor's position as one of the most accomplished, important novelists of his generation. He is undoubtedly on to something expansively new in his sense of what the contemporary novel can do * Guardian * The Late Americans has more bite than his previous work... what The Late Americans is showing us... is despairingly true. * i * Brandon Taylor's third book is the most dazzling example of his sharp pen and keen observations of human nature yet... Taylor develops his characters so precisely, they feel like close friends: recognisable, sometimes infuriating, and always worth following to the book's last page. * Harper's Bazaar * The Late Americans is Brandon Taylor's best book so far... For all their disagreements and misunderstandings and incompatibilities, [his characters are] all attempting to make peace with the cosmic bĂȘtise of existence, to figure out how to live without compromising everything they value. It's beautiful and wrenching to watch them try. * Boston Globe * A masterly, absorbing work. * Times Literary Supplement *