Career A. M. Homes

1 career

1.1 fiction
1.2 journalism
1.3 television

career
fiction

homes has written both short stories , novels; former published in leading magazines such granta, new yorker, mcsweeney s, , bomb magazine.

she wrote first novel, jack, when 19; published in 1989 when 28, after had published short stories. exploration of family life , sexuality, features boy divorced parents learns father gay. book critically praised , still featured in school , college reading lists. homes wrote screenplay adapt film same name, produced in 2004 cable network showtime.

a year later, first short-story collection, safety of objects (1990), published. adapted independent feature film of same name, released in 2001 , starring glenn close , numerous fine actors. homes co-wrote screenplay director, rose troche.

her second novel in country of mothers (1993). centered around therapist , girl patient adopted; therapist begins think girl might own daughter, whom had given @ birth. (homes writing novel , in production before own birth mother tracked down in 1992.)

homes 1996 novel, end of alice, narrated convicted child molester , murderer imprisoned in west block of sing sing. pulitzer prize-winning author michael cunningham described work as

dark , treacherous ice on highway. establishes a. m. homes 1 of bravest, terrifying writers working today. never plays safe, , begins if can anything.

aroused considerable controversy , received mixed reviews because of subject matter , objectionable protagonists; in uk, bookseller w.h. smith refused carry it.

homes published first chapter of 1999 novel music torching short story in new yorker. novel features characters appeared in short stories of first collection, safety of objects. features suburban couple deliberately burn house down. jill adams in barcelona review described having homes trademark style of wry humor applied uncanny dissection of suburbia’s facade. britain s observer found immensely disturbing . people magazine called novel haunting, ,

gary krist in new york times described a

nasty , willfully grotesque novel. fact is, @ times appalled book, annoyed it, angered it. ending struck me cynical , manipulative. so, found myself rapt beginning end, fascinated homes s single-minded talent provocation.

he concluded caveat: in last 2 novels, desire outrage conspicuous risks obscuring powerful gifts novelist.

writing in guardian in 2003, writer ali smith described homes second short story collection, things should know, funny , glinting , masterful, light air, strange dream, monstrous truth: real , classic thing.

her novel, book save life (2006), set in los angeles; satirized upper-class residents , city s culture. featured rich, isolated man suffers physical crisis , goes on wild compassion spree. guardian said kitschy , bordered on inane, there appealing mixture of apocalyptic , perkily upbeat, caught nicely john waters when said: if oprah went insane, might favourite book.

with may forgiven (2012), homes returned setting in westchester county, new york, region described in several of novels. packed violent, emotional incident in first chapter, won women s prize fiction (formerly orange prize), awarded in united kingdom.the guardian review described novel forgiveness, family, intimacy, consumerism , myth of success. reviewer said, homes can t compared other writer; no 1 else quite dark , funny , elegant @ same time.

journalism

homes articles , essays published in magazines such new yorker, artforum, vanity fair, , mcsweeney s, among others. has been contributing editor bomb magazine since 1995, has published articles , interviews various artists , writers, including eric fischl, tobias wolff, , adam bartos.

in 2004, new yorker published mistress s daughter , essay meeting biological parents first time @ age 31; unmarried when born, had put adoption. expanded essay exploration of family members , published memoir in 2007.

television

homes wrote season 2 of television drama series, l word, , produced season three. developed hbo series, hamptons resort towns along ocean on eastern long island, described cross between desperate housewives , grapes of wrath.

since 2010, homes has been developing television pilots cbs timberman/beverly productions. in 2013 developing koethi zan s best-selling novel, never list, dramatic series cbs television. homes writer , co-executive producer on 2017 usa series falling water, , writer , co-executive producer on david kelly stephen king series, mr. mercedes.