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Colum McCann (born 28 February 1965) is an Irish writer of literary fiction. He was born in Dublin, Ireland and now lives in New York. He is a Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing in the Master of Fine Arts program at Hunter College, New York〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Master of Fine Arts Program in Creative Writing )〕 with fellow novelists Peter Carey and Claire Messud, and has visited many universities and colleges all over the world, including the European Graduate School.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Colum McCann – Biography )〕 His work has been published in 35 languages and has appeared in the ''New Yorker'', ''Esquire'', ''Paris Review'', as well in several other places. He has written for the ''New York Times'', ''Esquire'', ''Paris Review'', ''The Atlantic Monthly'', as well as many other international publications. His novels include ''Songdogs'', ''This Side of Brightness'', ''Dancer'', ''Zoli'', ''Let the Great World Spin'', and ''TransAtlantic''. ==Early life== McCann was born in Dublin in 1965 and studied journalism in the former College of Commerce in Rathmines, now the Dublin Institute of Technology. He became a reporter for ''The Irish Press'' Group, and had his own column and byline in the Evening Press by the age of 21. McCann has said that his time in the Irish newspapers gave him an excellent platform from which to launch a career in fiction. He moved to the United States in 1986 and worked for a short period in Hyannis, Massachusetts. Between 1986 and 1988 he took a bicycle across the United States, travelling over 12,000 kilometres. In 1988 he moved to Texas where he worked as a wilderness educator with juvenile delinquents. He later went to the University of Texas where he graduated with a 4.0 grade point average and was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa. He began writing the stories that later comprised his first collection, ''Fishing the Sloe-Black River''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Colum McCann」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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