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Biography
Mark Doten is an American novelist and librettist. He is the author of two novels, The Infernal and Trump Sky Alpha, both published by Graywolf Press, and he has been a librettist for the Los Angeles Opera and the San Francisco Opera.
Trump Sky Alpha was written about in the New York Times as "a funny book and a sad one, a bright one and a dark one, a distant sci-fi dystopia and a ripped-from-the-headlines tragedy. . . The book acts both as a novel and as a searching, tortured position paper on the use of media, message and, especially, satire in our time.” The Los Angeles Times described Doten as "one of our keenest and most inventive prose writers working today.”
Doten was named one of the best young American novelists by Granta magazine in 2017.
Works
- Doten, Mark (2015). The Infernal. Minneapolis, Minnesota: Graywolf Press. ISBN 9781555977016. OCLC 879582832.
- Doten, Mark (2019). Trump Sky Alpha. Minneapolis, Minnesota: Graywolf Press. ISBN 9781555978280. OCLC 1088909814.