
Tom Bissell
Biography
Tom Bissell is the author of eleven books, the most recent of which is Creative Types: and Other Stories (Pantheon, 2021). As a screenwriter, he cocreated The Mosquito Coast, based on Paul Theroux’s novel of the same name, for Apple TV+ and wrote three episodes for the second and final season of Andor: A Star Wars Story for Disney+. His piece in this issue, “Awe and Splendor,” is drawn from his forthcoming book Well Adapted: Confessions of an Accidental Screenwriter. He has been a contributing editor to VQR for over twenty years.

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