Brett Leveridge

Brett Leveridge was born at the Route 66 Lanes bowling alley in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, between the 7th and 8th frames of his mother's third perfect game in a four-day stretch. He saw very little of his father, a traveling Druid evangelist, during his childhood; as a result, he grew up rough and he grew up wild and, when he was only 15, he shot a man in El Reno just to watch him die.

Barely evading the heat, the fuzz, the coppers, Johnny Law, the gendarmes, he hotfooted it to New York City. It was in a Bowery mission, while awaiting a bowl of potato soup and some banana pudding, that he received his calling.

Publications such as New York magazine, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, .net magazine, Long Island Newsday, The New York Daily News, Virtual City magazine, NetGuide magazine, The Boston Globe, Time Out New York magazine, New York Press, The Joe Bob Briggs Report, The Web magazine, The Columbus [Ohio] Dispatch, The San Diego Union-Tribune, and Psychotronic magazine have taken note of Leveridge's humorous musings, and he was cited as one of the members of the "It" Lit Pack in Entertainment Weekly's 2000 "It" issue.

Leveridge's "Men My Mother Dated" was a featured column in Daver Eggers' Might magazine for nearly two years, and he has also written for such print and online publications as Entertainment Weekly, Time Out New York, Virtual City, The Oklahoma Gazette, Egg, Salon, Urban Desires, Tripod, City Search New York, and Oklahoma Today.

Leveridge is also an occasional contributor to the popular syndicated radio program This American Life and National Public Radio's All Things Considered and has also been featured on NPR's Weekly Edition.

Leveridge lives in the Chelsea section of Manhattan, where he spends most of his time alone with his memories. His critically acclaimed book, Men My Mother Dated (and Other Mostly True Tales), published in the spring of 2000 by Villard Books, was a finalist for the 2001 Thurber Prize for American Humor. His work was also featured in 101 Damnations: The Humorists' Tour of Personal Hells, a humor collection published that was edited by Michael Rosen and published in 2002 by Thomas Dunne Books.