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John D'Agata (born 1975) is an American essayist. He is the author or editor of six books of nonfiction, including The Next American Essay

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John D'Agata is the author of Halls of Fame, About a Mountain, and The Lifespan of a Fact, as well as the editor of the 3-volume series A New History of the ...

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John D'Agata was born and raised on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. He attended the Northfield Mount Hermon School, and later the Intercollegiate Center for Classical ...

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John D'Agata is the author of Halls of Fame, About a Mountain, and The Lifespan of a Fact, as well as the editor of the 3-volume series A New History of the Essay.

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John D'Agata, a faculty member in the University of Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program, introduced The Lost Origins of the Essay. The book is a companion to D'Agata's The Next American Essay, which was published in 2002. D'Agata is joined by Iowa Writers' Workshop poet James Galvin, longtime Iowa Review editor David Hamilton, and Writers' Workshop visiting faculty member Elizabeth ...

John D'Agata received MFA degrees in both nonfiction and poetry from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and has been named "one of the most significant U.S. writers to emerge in the past few years." In Halls of Fame (2003, Graywolf Press), a collection of "lyric essays," he reflects on a variety of subjects ranging from the Hoover Dam and outsider artist Henry Darger to the Flat Earth Society and the ...

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The essayist John D'Agata makes an O'Brienesque claim about the difference between story-truth and happening-truth in his new book The Lifespan of a Fact (Norton).

John D'Agata has accomplished an impressive feat. In three thick volumes, over 13 years, he has published a series of anthologies—of the contemporary American essay, of the world essay, and ...

John D'Agata's lyric essays — and his defense of the essay as art form — have been at the center of an ongoing discussion on the roles of fact and truth in the literary arts. His newest anthology, The Making of the American Essay, the third in a series, has sparked even more debate over the very definition of essay, what falls under the category, and the significance of — and ...

While John D'Agata is a passionate advocate and practitioner of the essay, he is also polite, well-spoken, and reasoned in his defense of manipulating facts and eschewing the label of nonfiction. His most recent book, The Lifespan of a Fact, presents D'Agata's arguments by way of example: a reproduction of his 2003 essay for The Believer along with a transcript of the ensuing exchange between ...