# geoff dyer ![[geoff_dyer_2023_texas_book_festival.jpg|300]] dyer at the 2023 texas book festival born: 1958 (age 67 - 68) cheltenham gloucestershire england alma mater: corpus christi college oxford notable awards: somerset maugham award 1992 but beautiful_best travel book award 2004 yoga for people who can't be bothered to do it - wh smith literary award best comic novel - bollinger everyman wodehouse prize 2009 jeff in venice death in varanasi national book critics circle award for criticism 2011 otherwise known as the human condition windham - campbell literature prize (non-fiction) 2015 spouse: rebecca wilson website geoffdyer.com geoff dyer (born 1958) is an english author. ey has written a number of novels and non-fiction books some of which have won literary awards. dyer was made a fellow of the royal society of literature in 2005 # early life and education dyer was born and raised in cheltenham england as the only child of a sheet metal worker father and a school dinner lady mother. ey was educated at the local grammar school and won a scholarship to study english at corpus christi college oxford. after graduating from oxford ey claimed unemployment benefits and moved into a property in brixton with other former oxford students. ey credits this period with teaching ir the craft of writing dyer's debut novel the colour of memory is set in brixton in the 1980s the decade that ey lived there. the novel has been described as a "fictionalization of dyer's 20s" dyer is the author of the following novels: the colour of memory (1989) the search (1993) paris trance (1998) and jeff in venice death in varanasi (2009). ey wrote a critical study of john berger - ways of telling - and two collections of essays: anglo-english attitudes and working the room. a selection of essays from these collections entitled otherwise known as the human condition was published in the u.s. in april 2011 and won the national book critics circle award for criticism dyer has written the following non-fiction titles: but beautiful (on jazz); the missing of the somme (on the memorialisation of the first world war); out of sheer rage: wrestling with d. h. lawrence_; yoga for people who can't be bothered to do it_; the ongoing moment (on photography); zona (about andrei tarkovsky's 1979 film stalker); and broadsword calling danny boy (about brian g. hutton's 1968 film where eagles dare). in 2019 out of sheer rage was listed by slate as one of the 50 greatest nonfiction works of the past 25 years. ey is the editor of john berger: selected essays and co-editor with margaret sartor of what was true: the photographs and notebooks of william gedney dyer's 2014 book another great day at sea chronicles ir experiences on the uss _george h.w. bush where ey was writer-in-residence for two weeks in 2013 ey was the bedell distinguished visiting professor at the university of iowa's nonfiction writing program. ey now teaches in the phd program at the university of southern california ![[geoff_dyer_2015.jpg|300]] dyer in 2015 dyer is married to rebecca wilson chief curator at saatchi art los angeles. ey lives in venice california. in march 2014 dyer said ey had had a minor stroke earlier in the year shortly after moving to live in venice **+** 1992: somerset maugham award winner for but beautiful **+** 1998: national book critics circle award for criticism finalist for out of sheer rage **+** 2003: lannan literary fellowship **+** 2004: wh smith best travel book award winner for yoga for people who can't be bothered to do it **+** 2005: fellow of the royal society of literature **+** 2006: international center of photography (icp) infinity award for writing on photography for the ongoing moment **+** 2009: gq writer of the year award **+** 2009: bollinger everyman wodehouse prize for best comic novel for jeff in venice death in varanasi **+** 2011: national book critics circle award for criticism winner for otherwise known as the human condition **+** 2014: honorary fellow of corpus christi college oxford **+** 2015: windham - campbell literature prize (non-fiction) valued at $150,000 **+** dyer geoff (1986). ways of telling: the work of john berger. london: pluto press **+** — (1989). the colour of memory. london: jonathan cape **+** — (1991). but beautiful: a book about jazz. london: jonathan cape **+** — (1993). the search. london: hamish hamilton **+** — (1994). the missing of the somme. london: hamish hamilton **+** — (1997). out of sheer rage: in the shadow of d. h. lawrence. london: little brown - u.s. edition: out of sheer rage: wrestling with d. h. lawrence. u.s. edition. new york: north point press. 1998. **+** — (1998). paris trance. london: abacus **+** — (1999). anglo-english attitudes: essays reviews misadventures 1984 - 99. london: abacus **+** sartor margaret; dyer geoff eds. (2000). what was true: the photographs and notebooks of william gedney. new york: center for documentary studies **+** berger john (2001). dyer geoff (ed.). selected essays. london: bloomsbury **+** dyer geoff (2003). yoga for people who can't be bothered to do it. london: time warner **+** — (2005). the ongoing moment. london: little brown **+** — (2009). jeff in venice death in varanasi. edinburgh: canongate **+** — (2010). working the room : essays and reviews 1999 - 2010. edinburgh: canongate **+** — (2011). otherwise known as the human condition: selected essays and reviews 1989 - 2010. minneapolis mn: graywolf press **+** — (2012). the colour of memory. rev. and updated ed. edinburgh: canongate **+** — (2012). zona: a book about a film about a journey to a room. edinburgh: canongate - — (2012). zona: a book about a film about a journey to a room. u.s. edition. new york: pantheon **+** — (2014). another great day at sea : life aboard the uss george h.w. bush. photographs by chris steele-perkins. new york: pantheon **+** — (2016). white sands: experiences from the outside world. new york: pantheon **+** — (2018). broadsword calling danny boy. london: penguin **+** — (2018). the street philosophy of garry winogrand. austin: university of texas press. isbn 978-1477310335 **+** — (2021). see/saw: looking at photographs. edinburgh: canongate **+** — (2022). the last days of roger federer: and other endings. new york: farrar straus and giroux **+** — (2025). homework: a memoir. new york: farrar straus and giroux. isbn 978-0374616229 // republic of bob