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Bill Buford
AuthorBooks · Second handSince 1954
William Holmes Buford is an American author and journalist. He is the author of the books Among the Thugs and Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany. Buford was previously the fiction editor for The New Yorker, where he is still on staff. For sixteen years, he was the editor of Granta, which he relaunched in 1979. He is also credited with coining the term "dirty realism."
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William Holmes Buford is an American author and journalist. He is the author of the books Among the Thugs and Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany. Buford was previously the fiction editor for The New Yorker, where he is still on staff. For sixteen years, he was the editor of Granta, which he relaunched in 1979. He is also credited with coining the term "dirty realism."
Bill Buford was born in 1954 in Baton Rouge, United States.
His distinguished career spans roles as a journalist, writer, and editor.
He is widely recognized for his foundational work leading the prestigious magazine Granta.
Throughout his career, he has contributed to the creation of over one hundred published works.
His writing focuses primarily on modern literature, anthologies, and 20th-century fiction.
