Thomas Beller was born on May 23,1965 and is an American author and editor.
10 Facts About Thomas Beller
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Thomas Beller is the son of documentary filmmaker Hava Kohav Beller.
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Thomas Beller spent a year as a staff writer at The New Yorker, and later worked for The Cambodia Daily newspaper, where he remains a contributing editor.
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The Sleep-Over Artist, Thomas Beller's first novel, was a Los Angeles Times Best Book of 2000, and a New York Times Notable Book.
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Thomas Beller's third book, How to Be a Man: Scenes from a Protracted Boyhood, is a series of autobiographical essays.
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Thomas Beller's fourth book is a biography, JD Salinger: The Escape Artist.
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Thomas Beller co-founded the tri-annual literary magazine Open City in 1990, which added a book division in 1999.
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Thomas Beller has edited three anthologies: With Love and Squalor: 14 Writers Respond to the Work of JD Salinger, Before and After: Stories From New York, and Personals: Dreams and Nightmares From the Lives of Twenty Young Writers.
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Thomas Beller is the creator of the literary website Mr Beller's Neighborhood, a collection of essays, reportage, and vignettes by various authors, including Beller himself.
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In 2009, Thomas Beller edited a second Mr Thomas Beller's Neighborhood anthology, Lost and Found: Stories from New York.