William T. Vollmann

Quick Facts

Full Name	William T. Vollmann
Occupation	Novelist
Date Of Birth	Jul 28, 1959(1959-07-28)
Age	65
Birthplace	Los Angeles
Country	United States
Birth City	California
Horoscope	Cancer

William T. Vollmann Biography

William T. Vollmann is one of the most popular and richest Novelist who was born on July 28, 1959 in Los Angeles, California, United States. William Tanner Vollmann (born July 28th 1959) is an American novelist journalist, war correspondent, journalist short story writer and essayist. He was awarded in 2005 the National Book Award for Fiction for his story Europe Central.

His other works typically are about the establishment in North America (as in Seven Dreams: A Book of North American Landscapes the first comprising seven novellas) as well as stories about people (often prostitutes) who live on the fringes of poverty, war and even hope. The novel he wrote Europe Central (2005) follows the journeys of a broad variety of people (including his favorite Russian composer, Dmitri Stostakovich) involved in the war among Germany as well as the Soviet Union. It won the 2005 National Book Award for Fiction.

Vollman became depressed and began cross dressing in 2008 and has developed a female alter ego persona named Dolores which is documented in The Book of Dolores. “‘Dolores is a relatively young woman trapped in this fat, aging male body,’ Mr. Vollmann said. ‘I’ve bought her a bunch of clothes, but she’s not grateful. She would like to get rid of me if she could.'”

In 2008, Vollmann was awarded a five-year fellowship/grant from the Strauss Living Award, which provides $50,000 a year, tax free. In 2009, Vollmann published Imperial, a nonfiction account of life in Imperial County, California, on the border of Mexico.

Michael Hemmingson co-edited, with Larry McCaffery, Expelled from Eden The WTV Reader (NY: Thunder’s Mouth Press 2004, 2004) and also published William T. Vollmann: A Critical Study as well as seven interviews (Jefferson, NC: McFarland and Co) in 2009.

William T. Vollmann Net Worth

William T. Vollmann is one of the richest Novelist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, William T. Vollmann 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Vollmann was employed in odd jobs, such as an entry-level position as secretary at an insurance firm, and put aside enough money for a trip for a trip to Afghanistan during the year 1982. While there Vollmann sought to collect details and photos that would be used to determine which candidates were the most deserving for American assistance. He finally stumbled upon an army of mujahideen headed towards the front line. He fought alongside soldiers, who were in combat in their counterparts in the Soviet Union at the time and then he was struck with dysentery and needed to be carried across to the Hindu Kush mountains. The experiences he had on that trip inspired his very first fiction book, An Afghanistan Picture Show or the Story of How I Saved the World, that was not released until 1992.

On November 3, 2003 (after numerous delays) his book, The Rising Up in the same month as Rising Down was published. It’s a 3300-page, extensively illustrated, seven-volume treatise on violence. This book has been nominated by an award called the National Book Critics Circle Award. A single volume condensed version of the book was released at the close of the year by Ecco Press. Vollmann defended the abridgment by explaining, “I did it for the money.” Rising Up as well as Rising Down encompasses the culmination of more than twenty years’ research that he has attempted to create a moral calculus to analyze the causes, effects and the ethics behind violence. Vollmann developed it based on his experiences in reporting from the frontlines of war, such as Cambodia, Somalia, and Iraq.

As of 2007, Vollmann was writing ghost and supernatural stories for a collection to be published by Viking (“Widow’s Weeds” was published in AGNI No. 66 in 2007). He was also working on the fourth and fifth volumes of the Seven Dreams series. In interviews, he has mentioned a book about abortion called The Shame of Our Youth, as well as a study on rape cases in court.

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