Jim Lewis (novelist)
Jim Lewis (born 1963 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American novelist who grew up in New York and London. He has written four novels: Sister (1993), Why the Tree Loves the Ax (1998), The King is Dead (2003), and Ghosts of New York (2021). The books have been translated into several languages.
Lewis also writes about visual art for magazines and has contributed to more than 30 artist books for museums around the world. He has worked with artists such as Richard Prince, Jeff Koons, Christopher Wool, and Robert Gober, and with photographers Jack Pierson and Cecily Brown. He has written for The New York Times, Slate, Rolling Stone, GQ, and Vanity Fair, among others.
His reporting covers a wide range of topics, including war, riots, refugees, true crime, prisons, perfume, ballet, and Fabergé eggs. His essays have appeared in Granta and Tin House. He lives in Austin, Texas.
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