Kirn was born in Akron, Ohio, but grew up in Marine on St. in English from Princeton University in 1983 after completing a 22-page-long senior thesis entitled 'Entangling Breaths (Poems).' Following that, he obtained a second undergraduate degree in English Literature at Oxford University, where he was a Keasbey Memorial Foundation Scholar. In addition to teaching nonfiction writing at the University of Montana, Kirn was the 2008–09 Vare Nonfiction Writer in Residence at the University of Chicago. He also served as an American cultural correspondent for the BBC.

He has also reviewed books for New York Magazine and has written for The New York Times Book Review and New York Times Sunday Magazine, and is a contributing editor of Time, where he has received popularity for his entertaining and sometimes humorous first-person essays among other articles of interest. His most recent work, Blood Will Out, is a personalized account of his relationship with the convicted murderer and imposter Clark Rockefeller. He also wrote The Unbinding, an Internet-only novel that was published in Slate magazine. In 2005, he took over blogger Andrew Sullivan's publication for a few weeks while Sullivan was on vacation. The film adaptation of Up In The Air, which starred George Clooney and Anna Kendrick, was a commercial success and went on to receive critical acclaim as well as numerous nominations and awards. He is the author of eight books, most notably Up in the Air, which was made into a film of the same name starring George Clooney.Īs a writer, he has published a collection of short stories and several novels, including Thumbsucker, which was made into a 2005 film featuring Keanu Reeves and Vince Vaughn Up in the Air, which was made into a 2009 film directed by Jason Reitman and Mission to America. Walter Norris Kirn (born August 3, 1962) is an American novelist, literary critic, and essayist.

Up in the Air by Walter Kirn