Dancer a novel

Main Author:	McCann, Colum, 1965-
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Metropolitan Books, 2003.
Edition:	1st ed.
Subjects:	Nureyev, Rudolf, > 1938- > Fiction. Ballet dancers > Fiction. Male dancers > Fiction. Biographical fiction.

Physical Description:	336 p.
ISBN:	0805067922
Author Notes:	Irish writer Colum McCann was born near Dublin in 1965 and graduated from the University of Texas with a B.A. degree. He has worked as a newspaper journalist in Ireland and written several short stories and bestselling novels. The short film of Everything in this Country Must was nominated for an Academy Award in 2005. McCann's work has appeared in publications including The New York Times, The Atlantic Monthly, GQ, The Irish Times, La Repubblica, Die Zeit, Paris Match, the Guardian, and the Independent. He has won numerous awards, such as a Pushcart Prize, the Rooney Prize, the Irish Novel of the Year Award, and the 2002 Ireland Fund of Monaco Princess Grace Memorial Literary Award. In 2009 McCann was inducted into the Irish arts association Aosdana. He teaches in the Master of Fine Arts Creative Writing program at New York's Hunter College. (Bowker Author Biography)