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Teddy Wayne

(b.1979)
Husband of Kate Greathead

David Federman has never felt appreciated. An academically gifted yet painfully forgettable member of his New Jersey high school class, the withdrawn, mild-mannered freshman arrives at Harvard fully expecting to be embraced by a new tribe of high-achieving peers. Initially, however, his social prospects seem unlikely to change, sentencing him to a lifetime of anonymity.
Then he meets Veronica Morgan Wells. Struck by her beauty, wit, and sophisticated Manhattan upbringing, David becomes instantly infatuated. Determined to win her attention and an invite into her glamorous world, he begins compromising his moral standards for this one, great shot at happiness. But both Veronica and David, it turns out, are not exactly as they seem.
Loner turns the traditional campus novel on its head as it explores ambition, class, and gender politics. It is a stunning and timely literary achievement from one of the rising stars of American fiction.

Genres: Literary Fiction

Novels

   Kapitoil (2010)
   The Love Song of Jonny Valentine (2013)
   Loner (2016)
   Apartment (2020)
   The Great Man Theory (2022)
   The Winner (2024)

Books containing stories by Teddy Wayne

The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2013 (2013)
(Best American Nonrequired Reading)
edited by
Dave Eggers

Teddy Wayne recommends

The Audacity (2024)
Ryan Chapman
"Ryan Chapman's outstanding comic sensibility is matched by acrobatic prose of the first rank. The Audacity is an immersively entertaining, tightly controlled bullet of a novel."

Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance (2022)
Alison Espach
"Writing from a black hole, 'soundless and windless and without gravity, ' Alison Espach has alchemized unimaginable tragedy into a story that's deceptively funny, tender, and ultimately life-affirming. Novels like this are what the art form is for."

Last Resort (2022)
Andrew Lipstein
"Authenticity and possession of stories are the surface themes of Last Resort, but it is really about ambition and emptiness, about a callow young man with nothing to say self-destructively looking for shortcuts in literature and life. But the great irony is that Andrew Lipstein's impeccably written debut has quite a lot to say, and, as with the best comic novels, his semi-hero's misadventures have an undertow of real sadness."

A Calling for Charlie Barnes (2021)
Joshua Ferris
"With meticulous, wry prose and a dash of self-effacing metafiction, Joshua Ferris delves deeply into the simultaneously extraordinary and ordinary life of Charlie Barnes, a man with as much failure in him as found in our bankrupted country. This novel, about dentures and toupees and all the ways we disguise ourselves from our intimates, is at its large heart a moving portrait of a father and son to rival the best of Roth."

Who Is Maud Dixon? (2021)
Alexandra Andrews
"A Hitchcockian mashup about egos in every sense of the word, Who is Maud Dixon? never sacrifices graceful prose and acute insights for its breakneck pace. ‘Unputdownable’ has become overused praise, but it fully applies here; it is impossible to start Alexandra Andrews’s novel and not feel compelled to speed through its switchback twists to its conclusion."

Kings County (2020)
David Goodwillie
"With Tom Wolfean sociological precision, David Goodwillie casts an insider’s eye on the Brooklyn creative class in a gripping novel as suspenseful as it is panoramic. Kings County is a grand, galloping ride."

Little Disasters (2018)
Randall Klein
"Infidelity and grief are strange yet entirely persuasive bedfellows in Little Disasters. With masterly command of two perspectives and two timelines, not to mention a dry wit and a sharpshooter’s eye for bourgeois Brooklyn detail, Randall Klein elegantly maps the mundane plains of domesticity, the fragile stability we enjoy until catastrophe upends it, and the escape tunnels people dig that often turn out to be deeper holes."

Oliver Loving (2018)
Stefan Merrill Block
"With exquisite prose and nuanced insights into the functions and dysfunctions of family, Oliver Loving ranges far and wide, from small-town Texas to New York City, communication with semi-living ghosts to the American appetite for violence, the uncharted territory of the human brain to the equally elusive mysteries of the human heart. Stefan Merrill Block has written a captivating, powerful novel."

Touch (2017)
Courtney Maum
"What begins as a satirical romp through the fields of trend forecasting and technology in Courtney Maum’s Touch deepens into a trenchant and wise portrait of what it means to be fully human at a time when the culture is trying its hardest to make us only partially so."

The Sugar Thief (2012)
Nancy Mauro
"The Sugar Thiefis no mere confection written with comic brio, Nancy Mauro's heartfelt novel is also a trenchant examination of our algorithm-chasing mass culture and the knotty allegiances and legacies of family and home."

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