Gary Shteyngart
New York Times-bestselling author of Little Failure, Super Sad True Love Story, Absurdistan, and Our County Friends
Jonathan Tropper
Internationally bestselling author of This is Where I Leave You
Jonathan Tropper: “This is Where I Leave You” (Movie Times)
Photo credit: Greg Yaitanes
With six bestselling books, four of which have been optioned for films, Jonathan Tropper is a highly gifted storyteller who charms audiences with his wry humor and spot-on depictions of suburban American life. In his lectures, Tropper is both insightful and hilarious, often at the same time.
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About Jonathan Tropper
Jonathan Tropper is the New York Times and internationally bestselling author of six novels: Plan B, The Book of Joe, Everything Changes, How To Talk to a Widower, This Is Where I Leave You, and One Last Thing Before I Go. His books have been translated into over twenty languages – becoming bestsellers in France, Germany, and the U.K. He recently adapted This Is Where I Leave You as a feature film for Warner Bros. Studios, starring Jason Bateman and Tina Fey, and is currently adapting One Last Thing Before I Go for Paramount. Jonathan is also the co-creator and executive producer of the television show Banshee, which premiered on Cinemax in January 2013 and is currently shooting its third season. He lives with his three children in Westchester, NY .
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Speaking Topics
This is Where I Leave You
One Last Thing Before I Go
How To Talk to A Widower
The Book of Joe
Plan B
Books to Film: The Creative Process
A Novelist in Hollywood
The Novelist Showrunner
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Praise for Jonathan Tropper
Praise for This Is Where I Leave You
[A] magnificently funny family saga…It’s amazing what can happen in the hands of the casually brilliant author. Tropper steadily ratchets up the multigenerational mayhem, often involving unwieldy lust or vociferous inter-sibling squabbling, with the calm authority of someone who knows his characters from deep within his kishkes – that’s Yiddish for “guts”… I urge with all my heart and kishkes: Read this one! Read and weep with laughter.
— Lisa Schwartzbaum, Entertainment WeeklyHilarious and often heartbreaking… a novel that charms by allowing for messes, loose ends and the reality that there’s only one sure ending for everyone.
— The Los Angeles TimesOften sidesplitting, mostly heartbreaking…. [Tropper’s] a more sincere, insightful version of Nick Hornby, that other master of male psyche.
— USA TodayIn a wry domestic tone nicely akin to Tom Perotta’s, Mr. Tropper . . .introduces a darkly entertaining bunch of dysfunctional relatives. . . . This author’s strong suit is wisecracks, the more irreverent the better.
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This Is Where I Leave You
“The gifted and funny Jonathan Tropper returns with the often side-splitting, mostly heartbreaking This Is Where I Leave You…real and harrowing – when it’s not hilarious.”
—USA Today
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