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. His new novel, THE ILLUMINATION, is forthcoming in February 2011. His work has been translated into fifteen languages, and he has published his stories in such venues as The New Yorker, The Georgia Review, McSweeney's, Zoetrope, The Oxford American, The Best American Short Stories, The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, and New Stories from the South. He has received the Borders Original Voices Award, three O. Henry Awards (one, a first prize), the PEN USA Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and an NEA Grant. Recently he was named one of Granta magazine's Best Young American Novelists. He lives in Little Rock, Arkansas, where he was raised.

Books by Kevin Brockmeier

The Illumination

by Kevin Brockmeier - Fiction

At 8:17 on a Friday night, the Illumination begins. Every wound begins to shine, every bruise to glow and shimmer. And in the aftermath of a fatal car accident, a journal of love notes, written by a husband to his wife, passes into the keeping of Carol Ann Page. 

The Brief History of the Dead

by Kevin Brockmeier - Fiction

When a virus wipes out mankind, the dead gather in "The City" to remain as long as someone on Earth remembers them. Laura's parents, co-workers, friends and acquaintances reside there but Laura, isolated at an Antarctic research center, has no idea how truly alone she is...or that so many dead people rely on her memories alone in order to continue their afterlife existence.

Grooves: A Kind of Mystery

by Kevin Brockmeier

The Brief History of the Dead

by Kevin Brockmeier