“One of the ways I stuck out was I was a very passionate reader. There was probably a cyclical nature to that; the more I felt like an outcast, the more I sought refuge in books, and the more I sought refuge in books, the more it made me not speak the same language as my peers.”

American author

Garth Risk Hallberg is an American author known for his debut novel, City on Fire, published by Knopf in 2015. He made his literary debut with that novel, which established him as a novelist to watch. Beyond that, the available record here is limited, so the main point of reference is his first book and his work as an author.