Brad Gooch

Brad Gooch is a poet, novelist, and biographer, whose latest book is Radiant: The Life and Line of Keith Haring, published by Harper/Harper Collins in 2024. His previous books include: Rumi's Secret: The Life of the Sufi Poet of Love; Smash Cut: A Memoir of Howard & Art & The 70s and the 80s; Flannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor, which was a National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and a New York Times bestseller; City Poet: The Life and Times of Frank O'Hara. He also wrote Godtalk: Travels in Spiritual America, and three novels -- Scary Kisses, The Golden Age of Promiscuity, Zombie00. His collection of stories, Jailbait and other Stories, was chosen by Donald Barthelme for a Writer's Choice Award. He's also a poet; his poems have been collected in two volumes -- The Daily News; and Finding the Boyfriend Within and Dating the Greek Gods. Brad's work has been featured in numerous magazines including: The New Republic, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, New York Magazine, Travel and Leisure, Partisan Review,The Paris Review, The Los Angeles Times Book Review, Art Forum, Harper's Bazaar, The Nation, and The Daily Beast. A Guggenheim fellow in Biography, he has received a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship, and a Furthermore grant in publishing from the J.M. Kaplan Fund. He lives in New York City.