Frazier, Ian

Ian Frazier, essayist and humorist, is a staff writer at The New Yorker. He has been contributing to the magazine since 1974, when he published his first piece in The Talk of the Town. A year later, the magazine ran his short story “The Bloomsbury Group Live at the Apollo.” Since then, he has published numerous short stories and nonfiction, Shouts & Murmurs, and Talk of the Town pieces in the magazine. He is the author of Great Plains (1989), The Fish's Eye (2002), On the Rez (2000), and Family (1994), as well as Coyote v. Acme (1996), Dating Your Mom (1986), and his first novel, The Cursing Mommy's Book of Days (2012), all published by FSG. A frequent contributor to The New Yorker, he lives in Montclair, New Jersey.

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