Colm Tóibín

Colm Tóibín's fiction includes The South (1990), The Heather Blazing (1992), The Story of the Night (1996), The Blackwater Lightship (1999), The Master (2004), and Mothers and Sons (2006). He began his professional writing career in the 1980s as a journalist and editor at venues, including In Dublin, Hibernia, and Magill, and continues to work as a reviewer and critic for BookForum, London Review of Books, New York Review of Books, and others. Tóibín's critical writings have also been published in book form, most prominently Love in a Dark Time and Other Exploration of Gay Lives and Literature (2001), and he has edited anthologies, including the Penguin Book of Irish Fiction (1999). Among his nonfiction and travel writings are Walking Along the Border (1987), The Trial of the Generals (1990), The Sign of the Cross: Travels in Catholic Europe (1994), and The Irish Famine (1999). The Master, a novel that takes Henry James as its subject, was published in 2004 to great critical acclaim. His most recent novel is Brooklyn (2009). He has been a Visiting Writer at Stanford University and the University of Texas at Austin. He now teaches at Princeton.