Feeling that he lacked the necessary experience to do so, he embarked on an extensive bike ride across the country and then worked as a wilderness guide in a program for juvenile delinquents near Brenham, Texas. After working for various Irish newspapers and writing his own column in the Evening Press, Colum McCann moved to Cape Cod, Massachusetts, in 1986, where he attempted to write the great Irish-American novel. For an assignment reporting on battered women in Dublin, he was named Young Journalist of the Year and triggered a debate of the issue in parliament. McCann discovered his love of storytelling early on in grade school and followed in his father’s footsteps, graduating with a degree in journalism from the College of Commerce Rathmines (now the Dublin Institute of Technology) in 1982. His father was a journalist for the Irish Press newspaper group as well as a literary editor for a Dublin newspaper. He has published six novels and three collections of stories, and has received numerous international honors, including the National Book Award and the Deauxville Festival Literary Prize for Let the Great World Spin (2009), membership in the Irish arts academy Aosdana, and being named a Chevalier des arts et lettres by the French government -an award rarely conferred on foreign writers previous recipients have included Salman Rushdie and Julian Barnes.īorn and raised in Dublin, Colum McCann grew up in suburban house filled with books.
1965) is an award-winning Irish author based in New York, where he teaches creative writing at City University of New York’s Hunter College.
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