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About David Markson

David Merrill Markson (December 20, 1927 – c. June 4, 2010) was an American novelist. He was the author of several postmodern novels, including Springer's Progress, Wittgenstein's Mistress, Reader's Block and This Is Not a Novel . His final book, The Last Novel, published in 2007, was called "a real tour de force" by The New York Times.

Markson's work is characterized by an unconventional and experimental approach to narrative, character development and plot. The late writer David Foster Wallace hailed Wittgenstein's Mistress as "pretty much the high point of experimental fiction in this country". While his early works draw on the modernist tradition of William Faulkner and Malcolm Lowry, his later novels are, in Markson's words, "literally crammed with literary and artistic anecdotes" and "nonlinear, discontinuous, collage-like, an assemblage."

In addition to his output of modernist and postmodernist experimental literature, he published a book of poetry, a critical study of Malcolm Lowry, three crime novels, and an anti-Western, The Ballad of Dingus Magee, adapted into the film Dirty Dingus Magee, starring Frank Sinatra.

David Markson writes about Fiction, Fiction, general, Novelists, Authorship, Authors, fiction, and New york (n.y.), fiction. Their best-known work is The ballad of Dingus Magee.

On FindMyTBR we track 8 books by David Markson, 1 of them confirmed as audiobooks on Spotify or Apple Books — including Wittgenstein’s Mistress. Full availability across Spotify, Apple Books, Audible, and Amazon is below.