Thomas Beller, New Orleans Center for the Gulf South Monroe Fellowship Research Grant

Thomas Beller

Monroe Fellowship 2017
Tulane University

Biography

Thomas Beller's books include Seduction Theory,  The Sleep-Over Artist, and J.D. Salinger: The Escape Artist, which won the New York City Book Award for Biography/Memoir. He founded and edited the literary journal Open City from 1990-2010. His fiction has been published in numerous magazines and anthologies including the New Yorker, and Best American Short Stories. He is a regular contributor the the New Yorker and teaches creative writing at Tulane.

Research

A research grant in support of the essay,  “Lead and Inequality in New Orleans.”