Teddy Wayne Bio | Wiki
Teddy Wayne is an American novelist and short story writer. His books include The Love Song of Jonny Valentine, Kapitoil, and Loner. Teddy is a frequent contributor to The New Yorker, McSweeney’s, and many other publications.
He serves as a columnist for the New York Times and McSweeney’s and a regular contributor to The New Yorker. Teddy is the recipient of a Whiting Writers’ Award and an NEA Creative Writing Fellowship. He has taught at Columbia University, Washington University in St. Louis, and the Yale Writers’ Conference.
Teddy Wayne Age
Teddy was born in 1979, in the United States. He is 43 years old.
Teddy Wayne Height
He is a man of average stature and stands at a height of 5 ft 7 in (Approx. 1.70 m).
Teddy Wayne Family
He was born and raised in New York City by his parents. Teddy grew up in a secular humanist household and has Jewish ancestry. He holds an American nationality and belongs to the white ethnicity. Information about his parents and/or siblings is not available at the moment.
Teddy Wayne Wife
Teddy is married to his beautiful wife Kate Greathead. She is also a writer. Together, the couple shares two children and lives in Brooklyn. Kate is the author of Laura and Emma which was named a Best Book of 2018 by The Guardian, Esquire, and The New York Post.
Teddy Wayne Education
He graduated from Harvard University in 2001. Later, Teddy received his Master of Fine Arts in creative writing at Washington University in St. Louis in 2007. During graduate school, he started writing a novel about a Qatari computer programmer whose moral code is challenged when he joins a Wall Street investment firm. Published in 2010 as Kapitoil, the book received critical acclaim.
Teddy Wayne Loner
Teddy’s 2016 campus novel Loner tells the story of David Federman, a Harvard freshman and a victim of toxic masculinity who begins stalking one of his female classmates. HBO announced plans to produce a television series based on Loner in 2019, with Teddy attached to write the pilot and co-executive produce the series.
Teddy Wayne Apartment
In 2020, he published Apartment, a novel about the complicated friendship between two male writers who meet while attending Columbia University’s MFA program in 1996. Teddy’s novel The Love Song of Jonny Valentine, about the public meltdown of a Justin Bieber-like 11-year-old pop star, was published in 2013.
Teddy has said that the book was partly inspired by the vulnerability he felt after publishing his first novel. He researched Jonny Valentine by poring over celebrity magazines and reading biographies of former child stars such as Jackie Coogan, Tatum O’Neal, and Drew Barrymore
Teddy Wayne New Yorker
He is a frequent contributor to The New Yorker, McSweeney’s, and many other publications. Teddy is currently working on his fifth novel, about “a New Yorker on the edges of bourgeois society, critical of everything around him.”
Some of Teddy’s colleagues at The New Yorker include:
Molly Fischer – staff writer
Liana Finck – cartoonist
Lauren Collins – staff writer
Isaac Chotiner – staff writer
Emily Flake – cartoonist
Teddy Wayne Kapitoil
While he was in graduate school, Teddy started writing a novel about a Qatari computer programmer whose moral code is challenged when he joins a Wall Street investment firm. Published in 2010 as Kapitoil, the book received critical acclaim.
Teddy Wayne Salary
He serves as a frequent contributor to The New Yorker, McSweeney’s, and many other publications. Therefore, he earns a decent income. Teddy’s average salary is $73,540 per year.
Teddy Wayne Net Worth
He earns his wealth from his career, therefore, he has amassed a fortune over the years. Teddy’s estimated net worth is $780,500.
Who Is Teddy Wayne
Teddy is an American novelist and short story writer. His books include The Love Song of Jonny Valentine, Kapitoil, and Loner. Teddy is a frequent contributor to The New Yorker, McSweeney’s, and many other publications.