Phil Klay is a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps. His short story collection Redeployment won the 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 by The New York Times. His novel Missionaries was named one of the Wall Street Journal's best 10 books of , and listed by former President Barack Obama's as one of the best books of the year. His nonfiction work won the George W. Hunt, S.J., Prize for Journalism, Arts & Letters in the category of Cultural & Historical Criticism in His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, and the Brookings Institution's Brookings Essay series. He currently teaches fiction at Fairfield University. His essay collection, Uncertain Ground, was released in May of with Penguin Press.
In our time, if you don’t know someone in the service, military life can feel curtained off from the rest of us. Phil Klay offers a generous window into that world, and into the consequences of our nation’s military presence in the Middle East, both for the people who live there and for the ordinary Americans who serve. Upon graduating from Dartmouth in , Phil Klay was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the US Marine Corps. He was deployed to Iraq during the troop surge and served as a public affairs officer in Anbar Province. After leaving the Corps, he completed an MFA in fiction at Hunter College. His debut collection of stories, Redeployment, was awarded the National Book Award for fiction. Narrated with speed, compression, and a mix of humor and pathos, the stories are rich in observations of the psychology of people under extreme stress, genuine courage, genuine stupidity, brutality, and the ironies created by military bureaucracy. Klay, who is the product of a Jesuit education, continually brings them back to the overwhelming moral weight of choices made in war. In his Imageinterview with Nick Ripatrazone, he says, “Putting the story on the page is a product of do
Phil Klay was born in Westchester, New York, in He studied creative writing and literature at Dartmouth College and graduated in That spring he was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the United States Marine Corps and in was deployed to Iraq during the troop surge. He served as a public affairs officer out of Camp Taqaddum in Anbar Province until February After leaving the Corps, Klay completed an MFA in fiction at Hunter College. He was awarded the National Book Award for fiction for his debut collection of stories, Redeployment. He has also received the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Award (for best first book of any genre), the James Webb Award for fiction from the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation, and the W.Y. Boyd Literary Award for Excellence in Military Fiction from the American Library Association. His essays examining the complicated experiences of veterans returning home, as well as civilian perceptions of military service, have appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and New York Daily News. His writing has also appeared in Granta, Tin House, Fire and Forget: Short Stories from the Long War, and The Best American Nonrequir
“[The] longest, meatiest and most probing essays and articles presented here share the lasting power of Klay’s acclaimed fiction….Read together they amount to an interwoven, evolving and revealing examination of Klay’s central topic: What it means for a country always at war, that so few of its people do the fighting . . . Engrossing and important.” —James Fallows, New York Times Book Review
“Uncertain Ground solidifies Mr. Klay’s place among the best of an increasing number of writers who served in Iraq and Afghanistan and, while recounting their experiences in combat realistically and unheroically, raise profound questions about the nature of contemporary warfare.” —Wall Street Journal
“The keenness of his observations is unmatched . . . With this collection, Klay transcends his self-description as ‘a writer who was once a Marine and writes about war’ to become more of a philosopher. He uses war to pose urgent questions about political identity and personal faith that will endure long after the narratives of recent conflicts get revised and their terminology fades into history.” —Los Angeles Times
“An important and eye-opening essay collection that should be a
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