Yourgrau, Barry

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Yourgrau, Barry

PERSONAL:

Born in South Africa. Hobbies and other interests: Old-school Latin music, world soccer, gangster films in many cultures.

ADDRESSES:

Home and office—New York, NY. Agent—Ellen Levine, Trident Media Group, 41 Madison Ave., 36th Fl., New York, NY 10010. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER:

Performance artist, commentator, actor, and writer. Has appeared on National Public Radio and on MTV. Actor, appearing in films Fatman and Littleboy, Don't Look under the Bed, and Terminal Justice.

AWARDS, HONORS:

Drama-Logue Award for Wearing Dad's Head.

WRITINGS:

FOR ADULTS

A Man Jumps out of an Airplane: Stories, SUN (New York, NY), 1984.

Wearing Dad's Head, Peregrine Smith Books (Salt Lake City, UT), 1987.

The Sadness of Sex, Delta Trade Paperbacks (New York, NY), 1995.

Haunted Traveller: An Imaginary Memoir, Arcade Publishing (New York, NY), 1999.

FOR CHILDREN

My Curious Uncle Dudley, illustrated by Tony Auth, Candlewick Press (Cambridge, MA), 2004.

Nastybook, illustrated by Robert DeJesus, HarperCollins (New York, NY), 2005.

Another Nastybook: The Curse of the Tweeties (An Entire Novel), art by Robert DeJesus, Joanna Cotler Books (New York, NY), 2006.

Author's works have been included in several anthologies. Contributor of short fiction and articles to periodicals, including Paris Review, Bomb, Nerve, Story, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Spin, Salon.com, and New York.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Booklist, April 15, 1999, Donna Seaman, review of Haunted Traveller: An Imaginary Memoir, p. 1516; September 15, 2004, Debbie Carton, review of My Curious Uncle Dudley, p. 246; April 15, 2005, Ilene Cooper, review of Nastybook, p. 1450.

Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, May, 2005, review of Nastybook, p. 414.

Entertainment Weekly, March 20, 1992, Margot Mifflin, review of A Man Jumps out of an Airplane: Stories, p. 64.

Kirkus Reviews, July 15, 2004, review of My Curious Uncle Dudley, p. 695; April 15, 2005, review of Nastybook, p. 485; April 1, 2006, review of Another NastyBook: The Curse of the Tweeties (An Entire Novel), p. 359.

Library Journal, May 15, 1999, Thomas O'Connell, review of Haunted Traveller, p. 97.

Publishers Weekly, January 16, 1995, review of The Sadness of Sex, p. 453; March 22, 1999, review of Haunted Traveller, p. 68; July 26, 2004, review of My Curious Uncle Dudley, p. 55; June 6, 2005, review of Nastybook, p. 65.

School Library Journal, January, 2005, Edith Ching, review of My Curious Uncle Dudley, p. 100; June, 2005, Elaine E. Knight, review of Nastybook, p. 173; August, 2006, Elaine Lesh Morgan, review of Another Nastybook, p. 132.

Voice of Youth Advocates, June, 2005, Walter Hogan, review of Nastybook, p. 156.