Christopher Bollen

Christopher Bollen
Born	(1975-11-26) November 26, 1975 Cincinnati, Ohio
Occupation	Novelist, editor

Christopher Bollen (born November 26, 1975) is a novelist and magazine writer/editor who lives in New York City.

Describing his novels, The Daily Telegraph notes that "Bollen writes expansive, psychologically probing novels in the manner of Updike, Eugenides and Franzen, but he is also an avowed disciple of Agatha Christie."

Early Life

Raised in Cincinnati, Ohio, he graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Columbia College of Columbia University in 1998.

Career

He was the Editor in Chief of Interview Magazine from early 2008 to mid-2009, after serving as Editor in Chief of V Magazine. Bollen is currently Editor at Large of Interview Magazine. He writes about art and culture at Interview as well as publications like Artforum and the New York Times.

Novels

He published his first novel, Lightning People in 2011. Lightning People is about downtown New York City in 2007.

Bollen's second novel is titled Orient, a thriller published in May 2015 by HarperCollins named after Orient, New York (the tip of the North Fork of Long Island). The Los Angeles Times writes that Orient "might well be this summer's most ambitious thriller or this summer's most thrilling work of literary fiction." The Times further describes it as a "juicy mystery at the tip of Long Island at summer's end, when the season's fleeting pleasures have blown away, revealing the fractured and fractious year-round community that remains behind when the casual visitors have returned to the relative safety of New York City."