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Phil Klay

Biography

Phil Klay

Phil Klay is a veteran of the US Marine Corps. His short story collection REDEPLOYMENT won the 2014 National Book Award for Fiction and the National Book Critics’ Circle John Leonard Prize for best debut work in any genre, and was selected as one of the 10 Best Books of 2014 by The New York Times. His nonfiction work won the George W. Hunt, S.J., Prize for Journalism, Arts & Letters in the category of Cultural & Historical Criticism in 2018. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street JournalThe AtlanticThe New Yorker and the Brookings Institution’s Brookings Essay series. He currently teaches fiction at Fairfield University.

Phil Klay

Books by Phil Klay

by Phil Klay - Fiction, Military, Short Stories

Written with a hard-eyed realism and stunning emotional depth, REDEPLOYMENT takes readers to the frontlines of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, asking us to understand what happened there, and what happened to the soldiers who returned.