Contra Morrissey, I love it when my friends become successful. Daniel Kraus, Chicago area writer and friend from the old days, won this year’s Pulitzer Prize for his World War I horror novel Angel Down.
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Longtime readers know that I occasionally review books for the Wall Street Journal. I actually pitched a review for Angel Down, but it was not to be. But when Kraus won the Pulitzer for it, my editor at the WSJ gave me a different assignment: to sum up the highlights of Daniel Kraus’s career. Not easy! He’s one of the hardest working writers I know. Over the past 15-odd years, he’s put out some thirty books in many different genres, and he’s even got a movie coming out this fall! It was tough winnowing it down to the essentials, but here’s a gift link to the article. (“One of the most versatile, imaginative, and prolific writers of his generation”? Yeah, I stick by that!)
Here’s to all of our friends getting the success they deserve. (Oh, and today happens to be the birthday of the other fellow in the photo below, Adam Selzer, who is a fantastic author, tour guide, ghost hunter, and force of nature in his own right. It’s from when Dan, Adam and I all happened to have books out on Delacorte Press, and we briefly branded ourselves as “The Brothers Delacorte”—more photos here).
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