His books include: Bright Lights, Big City (1984) Ransom (1985) Story of My Life (1989) Brightness Falls (1992) The Last of the Savages (1997) Model Behavior (1999) Bacchus and Me (2000) How it Ended (2001) The Good Life (2006) A Hedonist in the Cellar (2006)
Personal: Married to publishing heiress Anne Hearst
