White Sands

Experiences from the Outside World

Summary:
Geoff Dyer is the author of "Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi" and three previous novels, as well as nine non-fiction books. Dyer has won the Somerset Maugham Award, the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Literature, a Lannan Literary Award, the 2006 Infinity Award from the International Center of Photography for writing about photography, and the E.M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2009, he was named Writer of the Year by GQ. In 2012, he received a National Book Critics Circle Award and was a finalist in 1998. In 2015, he was awarded the Windham Campbell Prize for Non-Fiction. His books have been translated into twenty-four languages. He currently lives in Los Angeles, where he is a Writer in Residence at the University of Southern California.