Dale Peck is the author of twelve books in a variety of genres, including Martin and John, Hatchet Jobs, and Sprout. His fiction and criticism have earned him two O. Henry Awards, a Pushcart Prize, a Lambda Literary Award, and a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship. He lives in New York City, where he teaches in the New School's Graduate Writing Program.
Praise for The Garden of Lost and Found A peculiar, hallucinatory novel . . .violently emotional, frequently unhinged, always interesting. EDGE Media A strange and wonderful novel [by] a strange and wonderful novelist. Joseph O'Neill, author of Netherland [Peck] tells the quintessential New York story with his delicious style and piercing ability to move. Martha McPhee, author of Gorgeous Lies [Peck is a] brilliant writer, and this perplexing, beguiling, pre-and-post 9/11 Manhattan-set fable could have come from no one else. Booklist Peck delivers a novel that explores family, sexuality, AIDS, and the resiliency of the city, and he does it without kowtowing to the populist sentiment that a character ought to be likable: this one certainly isn't . . . In typical fashion, Peck spares no punches. Lambda Literary Foundation Praise for The Garden of Lost and Found A strange and wonderful novel [by] a strange and wonderful novelist. Joseph O'Neill, author of Netherland [Peck] tells the quintessential New York story with his delicious style and piercing ability to move. Martha McPhee, author of Gorgeous Lies [Peck is a] brilliant writer, and this perplexing, beguiling, pre-and-post 9/11 Manhattan-set fable could have come from no one else. Booklist Peck delivers a novel that explores family, sexuality, AIDS, and the resiliency of the city, and he does it without kowtowing to the populist sentiment that a character ought to be likable: this one certainly isn't . . . In typical fashion, Peck spares no punches. Lambda Literary Foundation Praise for The Garden of Lost and Found A strange and wonderful novel [by] a strange and wonderful novelist. --Joseph O'Neill, author of Netherland [Peck] tells the quintessential New York story with his delicious style and piercing ability to move. --Martha McPhee, author of Gorgeous Lies [Peck is a] brilliant writer, and this perplexing, beguiling, pre-and-post 9/11 Manhattan-set fable could have come from no one else. --Booklist Peck delivers a novel that explores family, sexuality, AIDS, and the resiliency of the city, and he does it without kowtowing to the populist sentiment that a character ought to be likable: this one certainly isn't . . . In typical fashion, Peck spares no punches. --Lambda Literary Foundation