David Vann (born October 19, 1966, Adak Island, Alaska) is an American novelist and short story writer, and was formerly a professor of creative writing at the University of Warwick in England. Vann received a Guggenheim Fellowship and has been a National Endowment for the Arts fellow, a Wallace Stegner fellow, and a John L'Heureux fellow. His work has appeared in many magazines and newspapers. His books have been published in 23 languages and have won 14 prizes and been on 83 'best books of the year' lists. They have been selected for The New Yorker Book Club, the Times Book Club, the Samlerens Bogklub in Denmark and have been optioned for film by Inkfactory and Haut et Court. He has appeared in documentaries with the BBC, CNN, PBS, National Geographic, and E!.
2005—A Mile Down: The True Story of a Disastrous Career at Sea
2008—Legend of a Suicide, stories and a novella
2011—Last Day On Earth: A Portrait of the NIU School Shooter
2014—Crocodile: Memoirs from a Mexican Drug-Running Port, published in Spanish only
2020—Le bleu au-delà (The Blue Beyond), published in French only
2021—Komodo, published in French only
2007—Grace Paley Prize for Short Fiction for Legend of a Suicide/Sukkwan Island
2008—California Book Award for Legend of a Suicide/Sukkwan Island
2009—AWP Nonfiction Award for Last Day on Earth: A Portrait of the NIU School Shooter
2010—Prix Médicis Étranger (best foreign novel), France, for Legend of a Suicide/Sukkwan Island
2010—Le Prix des Lecteurs de L’Express, France, for Legend of a Suicide/Sukkwan Island
2011—Premi Llibreter, Spain, best foreign novel for Legend of a Suicide/Sukkwan Island
2013—St. Francis College Literary Prize for Dirt
Henfield/Transatlantic Review Award for Legend of a Suicide/Sukkwan Island
2010—Le Prix des Lecteurs de la Maison du Livre de Rodez for Legend of a Suicide
2011—Prix du Marais (regional public library prize in France) for Legend of a Suicide
2011—Le Prix de la librairie Nouvelle de Voiron for Caribou Island