Adam Ross

Adam Ross was born and raised in New York City in 1967 and now lives in Nashville, Tennessee, with his two daughters. His first novel Mr. Peanut (2010) was listed as one of the best books of the year by The New York Times, The New Yorker, and The Economist. A true crime story about a video game designer whose wife is found dead with peanuts lodged in her throat, the novel is a thrilling whirlwind, where facts are combined with guilty fictions, and the reader is forced to question what is the truth, and what is a lie.

His collection of short stories, Ladies and Gentlemen, was featured in Kirkus Reviews’ best books of the year list in 2011. He is also a prolific non-fiction writer, with features in The New York Times Book Review, The Daily Beast, and The Wall Street Journal. He was a Hodder Fellow for Fiction at Princeton University and is the editor-in-chief of The Sewanee Review.

Playworld, is set for publication in 2025.