Christopher Castellani

Christopher Castellani is the author of four novels: All This Talk of Love, The Saint of Lost Things, A Kiss from Maddalena, and most recently Leading Men. Based on the life of Tennessee Williams, Leading Men was a New York Times Editors’ Choice selection, a “Best New Book” in People magazine, and a Los Angeles Times Bestseller. A rave review in The New York Times called Leading Men “blazing,” and an “alert, serious, sweeping novel.” Entertainment Weekly hailed it as “Dazzling... with an evocative precision that historical fiction often merely aspires to.” Castellani is also the author of The Art of Perspective: Who Tells the Story, in the series published by Graywolf Press. His forthcoming new novel is Last Seen.

Christopher is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and the National Endowment for the Arts.  He has taught at Brandeis University and is currently on the faculty of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College.