The Last Days of the Thunderbird | Stefan Merrill Block | Granta Magazine

The Last Days of the Thunderbird

Stefan Merrill Block

‘The only upside of my fresh heartbreak: I’m an adult now! My pain is private adult pain!’

Stefan Merrill Block

Born in 1982, Stefan Merrill Block grew up in Texas. His first novel, The Story of Forgetting, won Best First Fiction at the Rome International Festival of Literature, the 2008 Merck Serono Literature Prize and the 2009 Fiction Award from The Writers’ League of Texas. The Story of Forgetting was also a finalist for the debut fiction awards from IndieBound, Salon du Livre and The Center for Fiction. His second novel, The Storm at the Door, was released in the summer of 2011. He lives in Brooklyn.

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