David Goodwillie

David Goodwillie is the author of the acclaimed novels KINGS COUNTY, a finalist for the 2020 Gotham Book Prize, and AMERICAN SUBVERSIVE, a New York Times Notable Book of 2010, and a Vanity Fair and Publisher's Weekly top ten Spring debut. He is also the author of the memoir SEEMED LIKE A GOOD IDEA AT THE TIME, for which he was named one of the "Best New Writers of 2006″ by members of the PEN American Center. Goodwillie writes about books for The New York Times, and his fiction and nonfiction have appeared in numerous magazines and newspapers, including New York, The Daily Beast, Popular Science, and Newsweek. He has been drafted to play professional baseball, worked as a private investigator, and been an expert at Sotheby's auction house. A graduate of Kenyon College, he lives in Brooklyn and the Catskills.