Todd McEwen is an American

United States

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 writer. A graduate of Columbia University

Columbia University

Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...

, he has been a resident of Scotland

Scotland

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 since 1981 and is married to novelist Lucy Ellmann

Lucy Ellmann

Lucy Ellmann is an Anglo-American novelist who now lives in Scotland.Her first book, Sweet Desserts, won the Guardian Fiction Prize. She is the daughter of the American biographer and literary critic Richard Ellmann, and is married to the American writer Todd McEwen...

. He has published four novels: Fisher's Hornpipe (1983), McX: A Romance of the Dour (1991), Arithmetic (1998) and Who Sleeps with Katz (2003). He has also written for Granta

Granta

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magazine, and contributed book reviews to The Guardian

The Guardian

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and other newspapers. He currently teaches creative writing at the University of Kent

University of Kent

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External links

• Review of "Who Sleeps With Katz" in The Guardian
  The Guardian
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  http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,1059188,00.html

• Review of "Who Sleeps With Katz" at Salon.com http://www.salon.com/src/pass/sitepass/spon/sitepass_website_refresh.html?http://dir.salon.com/story/books/review/2003/09/12/mcewen/index.html

• Review of "Who Sleeps With Katz" in the Portland Mercury http://www.portlandmercury.com/portland/Content?oid=30474&category=22148

• Granta site http://www.granta.com/authors/322

• University of Kent http://www.kent.ac.uk/english/staff-research/profiles/mcewen.html