David Gates
David Gates lives in Missoula, Montana, and Granville, New York. He teaches at the University of Montana, and in the Bennington Writing Seminars, and was an editor at Newsweek, where he specialised in music and books. He is the author of two novels, Jernigan and Preston Falls, and the story collection The Wonders of the Invisible World.Jernigan was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award. Gates's short stories have appeared in the New Yorker, Rolling Stone, Esquire, Paris Review and Granta.
Books by David Gates

A Hand Reached Down to Guide Me
David Gates
The master of suburban tragicomedy returns triumphantly with a collection of wry, hilarious stories of individuals coming up against life's compl…

Jernigan
David Gates
Jernigan is the great lost American masterpiece of suburban despair, a modern Revolutionary Road or Stoner