Jay McInerney
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John Barrett "Jay" McInerney, Jr. (born January 13, 1955) is an American novelist, screenwriter, editor, and columnist.
Bright Lights, Big City, Ransom, My Life, Sunlight Falls, and The Last of the Savages are among his books.
He authored The Penguin Book of New American Voices, an eight-book reviewer, co-wrote the screenplay for Angelina Jolie's 1988 film version.
He was the wine columnist for House & Garden magazine, and his articles on wine were published in Bacchus & Me (2000) and A Hedonist in the Cellar (2006).
His most recent book, titled Bright, Precious Days, was published in 2016.
He appeared in The Wall Street Journal as a wine columnist beginning in April 2010.
He published How It Ended, a collection of short stories that span his entire career, which was named one of the year's top 10 books by Janet Maslin of The New York Times.
Early life and education
McInerney was born in Hartford, Connecticut, the son of Marilyn Jean (Murphy) and John Barrett McInerney, Sr., a corporate executive. In 1976, he graduated from Williams College. He earned a Master of Arts in English and studied writing with Raymond Carver at Syracuse University.
Personal life
Linda Rossiter, a fashion photographer, was his first wife. Merry Reymond, his second wife, was a writer. Marla Hanson, a fashion photographer, lived with him for four years. John Barrett McInerney III and Maisie Bransford McInerney were in his third marriage, to Helen Bransford, who lived for nine years. Anne Hearst married him in 2006.
Career
McInerney, a fact-checker at The New Yorker, rose to prominence with his first published book, Bright Lights, Big City, in New York. The novel, which was published in 1984, was groundbreaking in terms of its depiction of cocaine culture in a second-person narrative. Jimmy Reed's title is based on a 1961 blues song. McInerney's name was established as part of a new generation of writers in the novel. In a 1987 article in the Village Voice, McInerney, Bret Easton Ellis, and Tama Janowitz were introduced as the new face of literature, young, iconoclastic, and fresh. Five books were published in a quick succession: Ransom, Story of My Life, Brightness Falls, The Last of the Savages and Model Behavior.
Publishers started looking for similar books about young people in urban settings following the success of Bright Lights, Big City. Less than Zero, Ellis's 1985 debut, was promoted as a result of McInerney's example. McInerney, Ellis, and Janowitz were based in New York City, and New York newspapers chronicled their lives.
In his books American Psychological and Glamorama, Ellis used Alison Poole (Story of My Life) to illustrate McInerney's character. Alison Poole's character, according to McInerney, is based on Rielle Hunter, then known as Lisa Druck. He described the role as "cocaine addled" and "sexually voracious," but he also treated her with some compassion. McInerney's roman à clef gave a first glance at the controversial horse murders scandal, which was not revealed to the public until 1992, when Sports Illustrated magazine published a confession from the man who murdered Lisa Druck's horse at her father's behest in order to claim the insurance on its life.
McInerney is also a cameo in Ellis' Lunar Park, attending Bret's Halloween party at his house. McInerney was not happy with his appearance in the novel, and it was later revealed.
McInerney has suffered with his reputation as both the author and protagonist of Bright Lights, Big City, throughout his career. "I'm no longer a 25-year-old bon vivant," McInerney said in an interview in 2009, but [that] gave me what I always wanted: the opportunity to be a full-time writer. It hasn't been entirely fair to my other books, and I've had to deal with a slew of idiocy on the part of the critics and cultural commentators." He was the Commencement speaker for the Class of 2010.