Novel · 2024
The Cartographer of Lost Hours
A meditation on memory, silence, and the small acts that bind one life to another.
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Author · Novelist · Essayist
Daniel R. Crawford
Four books of fiction and essays on memory, solitude, and the small acts that bind one life to another.
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The Paris Review ✦ NBCC Finalist ✦ The Guardian ✦ Harper's Magazine ✦ Granta Best of Young ✦ The Paris Review ✦ NBCC Finalist ✦ The Guardian ✦
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The Books
Four works of fiction and nonfiction published between 2016 and 2024.
Essays · 2022
Letters from the Salt House
Twelve essays on solitude, weather, and the architecture of attention.
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Fiction · 2019
A Field Guide to Forgetting
Short stories set along the coast of Maine, where every departure is also a return.
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The Weight of Snow
Finalist, National Book Critics Circle Award. A quiet epic of family and inheritance.
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About
A writer in the long American tradition of attention.
Daniel R. Crawford was born in Portland, Maine, in 1979. He is the author of four books, including the NBCC-finalist novel The Weight of Snow (2016) and the essay collection Letters from the Salt House (2022).
His work has appeared in The Paris Review, Harper's, Granta, and The New York Review of Books. He has held fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the American Academy in Rome.
He lives with his wife and two daughters in a small house near the coast, where he is at work on a fifth book.
4
Books
22
Years writing
2
Fellowships
Praise
On the Work
"Crawford writes with the patience of a watchmaker and the reach of a poet."
"Quiet, exact, devastating — a writer who trusts the reader completely."
"Among the most distinctive American voices of his generation."
Reading · Memory · Solitude · Attention ·
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