Christopher Bollen is a writer and editor who lives in New York City. He is the author of four novels — Lightning People (2011), Orient (2015), The Destroyers (2017), and A Beautiful Crime (2020). His latest novel, a political thriller set partly in Cairo, is set to be published in 2022.
Christopher Bollen is a practitioner of the literary thriller — or rather where the genres of literature and suspense overlap. The Destroyers won the 2018 Fitzgerald Prize in France, and A Beautiful Crime was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. The work-in-progress novel involves the art world in Paris.
After graduating from Columbia University, he began a career as a magazine editor, eventually serving as Editor in Chief of Andy Warhol’s Interview Magazine. He is currently the editor at large of Interview as well as a contributing editor at Vanity Fair. His journalism has appeared in a variety of publications including The New York Times, T Magazine, GQ, Artforum, The Believer, New York Magazine, and Condé Nast Traveler.