Wells Tower | |
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| Born | April 14, 1973 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Education | Wesleyan University (BA), Columbia University (MFA) |
| Notable works | Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned |
| Notable awards | The Paris Review Plimpton (Discovery) Prize, two Pushcart Prizes |
Wells Tower (born April 14, 1973) is an American writer of short stories, non-fiction, feature films and television. In 2009 he published his first short story collection, Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) to much critical acclaim. His short fiction has also been published in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, McSweeney's, Vice, Harper's Magazine, A Public Space, Fence and other periodicals. In 2022, he wrote the screenplay for the feature film Pain Hustlers, starring Emily Blunt and directed by David Yates, which was bought by Netflix for $50 million.