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Jonathon Keats fabulist, artist, critic

Jonathon Keats

Biography Jonathon Keats is a novelist, essayist, and conceptual artist. He is the author of the novels "The Pathology of Lies" (Warner, 1999) and "Lighter Than Vanity" (Eksmo, 2006), and his many interdisciplinary art projects, commissioned by institutions including the Berkeley Art Museum, the Judah L. Magnes Museum and the San Francisco Arts Commission, have been featured on PBS, NPR, and the BBC World Service. He is the art critic for San Francisco magazine, a columnist for Wired Magazine and Artweek, a correspondent for Art & Auction and Art + Antiques, and a writer on topics including science, culture, art, architecture, design, and literature for publications including the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, Popular Science, Art in America, Prospect, Forbes Life, and Salon.com. He has recently published a book of microessays on technology titled "Control + Alt + Delete" (Lyons Press) and monographs on the artists Gottfried Helnwein (The Museum of Tolerance) and Naomie Kremer (Modernism), and his journalism has been included in "The Best American Science Writing 2007" (HarperCollins). He has also recently completed a collection of fables called "The Book of the Unknown", which will be published by Random House in 2009. Since graduating summa cum laude from Amherst College in 1994, he has been a guest lecturer at UC San Francisco, UC Berkeley, and UC Davis, and has been awarded fellowships by Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, the Ucross Foundation, the MacNamara Foundation, and the Poetry Center at the University of Arizona. He serves on the National Book Critics Circle, for which he has chaired the fiction and criticism committees.

Upcoming Works

  • The Book of the Unknown: A Fiction

Causes I Support

  • Amnesty International
    The ACLU
    Oxfam
    The Nature Conservancy
    The Anti-Defamation League

Agents

  • Elise Capron, The Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency

Contact Agents

Publishers

  • Random House

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