Gary Shteyngart was born in Leningrad in 1972 and came to the United States seven years later. He is the author of the novels SUPER SAD TRUE LOVE STORY, which won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize and was selected as one of the best books of the year by more than forty news journals and magazines around the world; ABSURDISTAN, which was chosen as one of the 10 best books of the year by The New York Times Book Review and Time magazine; and THE RUSSIAN DEBUTANTE'S HANDBOOK, winner of the Stephen Crane Award for First Fiction and the National Jewish Book Award for Fiction. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, Travel + Leisure, Esquire, GQ, The New York Times Magazine, and many other publications and has been translated into 26 languages. Shteyngart lives in New York City and upstate New York.

Books by Gary Shteyngart

Little Failure: A Memoir

by Gary Shteyngart - Nonfiction

After three acclaimed novels, Gary Shteyngart turns to memoir in a candid, witty and deeply poignant account of his life so far. Swinging between a Soviet home life and American aspirations, Shteyngart found himself living in two contradictory worlds, all the while wishing that he could find a real home in one. And somebody to love him. And somebody to lend him 69 cents for a McDonald’s hamburger.

Super Sad True Love Story

by Gary Shteyngart - Fiction