Villa Gillet - Rhône-Alpes - recherches contemporaines

Forrest Gander was born in Virginia in 1956 where he grew up and studied English Literature and Geology. He then lived in San Francisco, Mexico and Arkansas. Since 1982, he has been living in Rhode Island. He is famous as a poet in the United States where he has published over a dozen anthologies. He is an essayist and translator (from Spanish) and teaches Literature at Brown University. His first novel, As a Friend, has just been published in France.