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Alan Cumyn

Biography

Alan Cumyn

Alan Cumyn is the award-winning author of a baker’s dozen wide-ranging and often wildly different novels. His historical novels THE SOJOURN and THE FAMISHED LOVER chronicle the First World War and Great Depression experiences of artist Ramsay Crome. His human rights novels, MAN OF BONE and BURRIDGE UNBOUND, follow a torture victim through survival and post-trauma. Losing It is a darkly funny and truly twisted novel about madness, while his Owen Skye books for kids–THE SECRET LIFE OF OWEN SKYE, After SYLVIA AND DEAR SYLVIA ---  hilariously trace the calamitous trials of childhood and the pangs of early love. Cumyn’s young adult novel TILT is a funny, sexy exploration of a teenaged boy’s obsessions as he lives through an impossibly absurd time of life. All Night, a literacy project, follows a young artsycouple through a stormy night of hard truths and romantic dreams. And HOT PTERODACTYL l BOYFRIEND brings a touch of Kafka to the previously ordered love life of a high school senior who has no idea what might fly out of the primordial past.