Greg Olear

Author's Bio

My name is Greg Olear, which is pronounced OH-lee-ar, like "caviar." I grew up in the Jersey suburbs, went to college in DC, and spent a formative decade in the East Village. I'm now up in New Paltz, N.Y., with my wife and two small children. I'm plowing through Novel #2, Memoir #1, and the perpetual snow in the driveway.

Publications and Prizes

Books:

Totally Killer (Harper Paperbacks, 2008)

Prizes:

Back in high school, I lost "Most Likely to Succeed" by one vote to my good friend Michael "F" Huening -- I voted for him and he voted for himself.

Personal Favorites

What I'm Reading Now:

All About Lulu by Jonathan Evison, The Great Crash by John Kenneth Galbraith, Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller, One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish by Dr. Seuss

Favorite Books:

Paradise Lost, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, The Sun Also Rises, The Great Gatsby, Lolita, Despair, 1984, Cat's Cradle, Atonement, Saturday, The Ice Storm, The Crying of Lot 49, Great Jones Street, Hotel Honolulu, Sir Vidia's Shadow, U&I, Human Smoke, The Hunters, I Claudius, King Jesus, The Moviegoer, American Psycho, Wake Up Sir, Tropic of Cancer, Stranger in a Strange Land, The Secret History, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, Affliction, The Sweet Hereafter, Handmaid's Tale, The Left Hand of Darkness, Ragtime, Motherless Brooklyn, American Tabloid, The Big Sleep, Generation X, Speaker for the Dead, The Virgin Suicides, Middlesex, Sophie's Choice, Kavalier & Clay, Catcher in the Rye, Franny & Zooey, Nine Stories, Lord of the Flies, Brave New World, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, How the Grinch Stole Christmas.

Favorite Authors:

John Milton, Thomas Hardy, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Vladimir Nabokov, George Orwell, J.D. Salinger, Kurt Vonnegut, Ian McEwan.

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Listing last updated: January 23, 2009

More Information

Listed as:

Fiction Writer

Gives readings?

Yes

Travels for readings?

Yes

Prefers to work with:

Adults

Fluent in:

English

Born in:

Summit, NJ

Raised in:

Madison, NJ

Agent:

Mollie Glick, Jean V. Naggar Literary Agency