David Mitchell is the award-winning and bestselling author of Slade House, The Bone Clocks, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, Black Swan Green, Cloud Atlas, Number9Dream, and Ghostwritten. Twice shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, Mitchell was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time in 2007. With KA Yoshida, Mitchell translated from the Japanese the internationally bestselling memoir The Reason I Jump. He lives in Ireland with his wife and two children.
ARTICLES FEATURING DAVID
Game of Tomes
David Mitchell draws from a deep well of supernatural horror that has inspired writers from Henry James to Shirley Jackson....
The David Mitchell Übernovel: Brian Finney Reviews “Slade House”
Like all Mitchell's novels, "Slade House" belongs to the same Übernovel he has been constructing from the beginning while it remains a self-contained unit....
War in Pieces: Violence and Conflict in David Mitchell’s “The Bone Clocks”
An examination of the prominent themes of war and violence in David Mitchell’s work, particularly his recent Bone Clocks, and how these themes are always heavily couched in the narrative experiences of characters who he brings to life with an honesty and realism befitting a master of his craft....
The Destruction of Genre
David Mitchell's "Slade House" demonstrates once again that no genre, no narrative device, is ever allowed to stand unchallenged....
Adding to the Übernovel: Why David Mitchell Does What He Does
A call to reviewers to drop elitist prejudices and see Mitchell’s appropriation of fantasy genres for what it is....
Video: David Mitchell
Mark Haskell Smith on the flawlessness of David Mitchell....
Perfectly Plausible Worlds
He is both a post-national and post-postmodern writer on the one hand and quite simply a page-turner on the other....
