Omnivorously curious and psychologically probing, Geoff Dyer's writings reinvent again and again the possibilities of nonfiction, discovering as many new subjects as he does ways of writing about them. Geoff Dyer is the author of four novels and eight books of nonfiction. Whether wrestling with the specter of D.H. Lawrence (Out of Sheer Rage, 1997), "summarizing the action" of a famously slow-moving Tarkovsky film (Zona, 2012), or narrating his stay aboard an aircraft carrier (Another Great Day at Sea, 2014), Dyer's genre-defying explorations have earned him universal admiration as singularly restless and original in his vision. Writing in the New York Review of Books, Giles Harvey noted approvingly, "This prowling and capricious nature has produced one of the strangest bodies of work in contemporary letters." In addition to his book-length works, Dyer has written numerous essays and reviews for a variety of publications, a selection of which were collected in Otherwise Known as the Human Condition (2011) and awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism. Of his 1991 book about jazz artists, But Beautiful, book critic David Thompson of the Los Angeles Times wrote, "May be the best book ever written about jazz." His most recent novel is Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi (2009). Dyer was born in Cheltenham, England, and currently resides in Los Angeles.
