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Michael Zadoorian author biography, plus links to books by Michael Zadoorian.

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Michael Zadoorian

Michael Zadoorian is the critically praised author of BEAUTIFUL MUSIC, as well as THE LEISURE SEEKER—basis for the 2018 Sony Pictures Classics film starring Helen Mirren and Donald Sutherland. Zadoorian is a recipient of a Kresge Artist Fellowship in the Literary Arts, the Columbia University Anahid Literary Award, the Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award, the GLIBA Great Lakes Great Reads Award, and two Michigan Notable Book Awards. His other books are SECOND HAND: A Novel, and the story collection THE LOST TIKI PALACES OF DETROIT. His work has appeared in the Literary Review, Beloit Fiction Journal, American Short Fiction, Witness, Great Lakes Review, North American Review, Detroit Noir, and The Huffington Post. A lifetime resident of the Detroit area, he lives with his wife in a 1937 bungalow filled with cats and objects that used to be in the houses of other people. THE NARCISSISM OF SMALL DIFFERENCES will be released in May 2020 by Akashic Books.

This biography was last updated on 02/01/2009.

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