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Jeff Schwager

Biography

Jeff Schwager

Jeff Schwager is a Seattle-based writer, editor, producer and playwright who has also had a successful career as an entertainment and media executive. He has written extensively on books, movies, music and theater, and has interviewed many of the most esteemed artists in each of those mediums. In 2013, Book-It Repertory Theatre produced his acclaimed adaptation of Denis Johnson’s JESUS' SON. The following year, the company's five-hour stage version of his dramatization of Michael Chabon's THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER & CLAY won Theatre Puget Sound's prestigious Gregory Award for Outstanding Production of 2014. 

Jeff Schwager

Books by Jeff Schwager

The Writer's Library: The Authors You Love on the Books That Changed Their Lives
by Nancy Pearl and Jeff Schwager - Literary Criticism, Nonfiction

Before Jennifer Egan, Louise Erdrich, Luis Alberto Urrea and Jonathan Lethem became revered authors, they were readers. In this ebullient book, America’s favorite librarian, Nancy Pearl, and noted playwright Jeff Schwager interview a diverse range of America's most notable and influential writers about the books that shaped them and inspired them to leave their own literary mark. Illustrated with beautiful line drawings, THE WRITER’S LIBRARY is a revelatory exploration of the studies, libraries and bookstores of today’s favorite authors --- the creative artists whose imagination and sublime talent make America's literary scene the wonderful, dynamic world it is.