Lewis Buzbee

Lewis Buzbee is the author of the acclaimed literary works After the Gold Rush, Fliegelman's Desire, and First to Leave Before the Sun (with Dave Tilton), along with nonfiction titles including The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop and Blackboard. He has also written three award-winning books for younger readers, Steinbeck's Ghost, The Haunting of Charles Dickens, and Bridge of Time. His essays, poems, stories, and interviews have appeared in Lit Hub, GQ, The New York Times Book Review, Paris Review, ZYZZYVA, Black Warrior Review, and Best American Poetry. A long-time bookseller and publisher, Buzbee lives in San Francisco with his wife, the poet Julie Bruck, not far from their adult child Maddy.