David Homel was born in Chicago in 1952 and left in 1970 for Paris, living in Europe the next few years on odd jobs and odder couches. He has published eight novels, from Electrical Storms in 1988 to The Teardown, which won the Paragraph Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction in 2019. He has also written young adult fiction with Marie-Louise Gay, directed documentary films, worked in TV production, been a literary translator, journalist, and creative writing teacher. Lunging into the Underbrush is his first book of non-fiction. He lives in Montreal.

Books by David Homel

Lunging into the Underbrush: A Life Lived Backward

The Traveling Circus

The Fledglings

Summer in the City

Midway

On the Road Again

Speaking Cure, The

L'analyste

Rat Palms

Electrical Storms

Sonya & Jack

The Teardown

Books translated by David Homel

The Lily Pad and the Spider

Nan Goldin: The Warrior Medusa

Women and Power

Bitter Rose

Hysteric

Maleficium

The Return

Wildlives

The Baldwins

A Covenant of Salt

All That Glitters

Heart Is An Involuntary Muscle, The

Taximan

The Weight of Snow

The Green Chamber

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