I Met Someone

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

BRUCE WAGNER was born in Madison, Wisconsin. He dropped out of Beverly Hills High School and worked as an ambulance driver and chauffeur before making his living as a screenwriter. In 1988, he privately published Force Majeure: The Bud Wiggins Stories, which he expanded into his first novel, Force Majeure. In 1993, he wrote a graphic novel, Wild Palms (illustrated by Julian Allen), that became a television miniseries. His second novel, I’m Losing You, appeared in 1996. He went on to publish I’ll Let You Go, Still Holding, The Chrysanthemum Palace (a PEN/Faulkner fiction award finalist), Memorial, Dead Stars, and The Empty Chair: Questions and Answers. He wrote Maps to the Stars, a film directed by David Cronenberg, for which Julianne Moore won Best Actress at Cannes in 2014.