Wayne Koestenbaum is an award-winning journalist, writer, and editor. He is the author of the novel Conversations with My Father (winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award), about his relationship with his father, who was a Holocaust survivor turned boxing trainer. His other books include The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights (shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award), The Night of the Sentinels (which was shortlisted for the PEN/Faulkner Award), and Ghosts in America, which was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. He has written for many publications, including The New York Times Magazine, GQ, Men's Journal, Ladies' Home Journal, Rolling Stone, The New Republic, Esquire, Harper's Bazaar, and The Atlantic Monthly
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His work has appeared in numerous anthologies and in book form. He lives in Washington Heights.