12 Facts About David Ebershoff

David Ebershoff was born on January 17,1969 and is an American writer, editor, and teacher.

David Ebershoff's book of short stories, The Rose City, is a collection of stories about queer life at the end of the 20th century.

David Ebershoff's third novel, The 19th Wife, was a New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller, selling almost a million copies around the world.

David Ebershoff's journalism has appeared in The New York Times, the London Sunday Times, Vogue, The Guardian, Variety, and Conde Nast Traveler.

David Ebershoff has worked as a book editor at Random House for twenty years, starting as a summer intern.

In 2013, David Ebershoff became the first editor to edit the winners of the Pulitzer Prizes for Fiction and for History in the same year.

David Ebershoff edited "America's War for the Greater Middle East" by Andrew Bacevich which was longlisted for the 2016 National Book Award.

David Ebershoff was Jane Jacobs's editor on her final two books and was Norman Mailer's editor for the last five years of his life.

David Ebershoff was formerly the publishing director of Random House's classics imprint, the Modern Library.

David Ebershoff has taught writing at NYU and Princeton, and in the MFA program at Columbia University.

David Ebershoff attended Polytechnic School in Pasadena, California, and Brown University.

David Ebershoff has appeared twice on Out Magazine's annual Out 100 list of influential LGBT people.