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Jonathan Ames


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New Jersey, The United States
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Genre
Literature & Fiction, Short Stories, Humor


Jonathan Ames is the author of the books The Double Life is Twice As Good, I Pass Like Night, The Extra Man, What's Not to Love?, My Less Than Secret Life, Wake Up, Sir!, I Love You More Than You Know, and The Alcoholic (a graphic novel illustrated by Dean Haspiel). He is the editor of Sexual Metamorphosis: An Anthology of Transsexual Memoirs.

He is the winner of a Guggenheim Fellowship and is a former columnist for New York Press.

Wake Up, Sir! and The Extra Man are in development as films, with Mr. Ames having written the screenplays. He adapted What's Not to Love? as a TV special for the Showtime network and he played himself. At the time, he said, "It's the role I've been waiting for!" The special aired in December 2007 and January 2008. ...more

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Average rating: 3.79 · 24,044 ratings · 2,616 reviews · 39 distinct works • Similar authors
You Were Never Really Here
3.87 avg rating — 4,713 ratings — published 2013 — 29 editions
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Wake Up, Sir!
3.75 avg rating — 4,118 ratings — published 2004 — 34 editions
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A Man Named Doll (Happy Dol...
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The Extra Man
3.73 avg rating — 1,895 ratings — published 1998 — 31 editions
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I Love You More Than You Know
3.81 avg rating — 1,589 ratings — published 2005 — 4 editions
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What's Not to Love?: The Ad...
3.99 avg rating — 1,513 ratings — published 2000 — 12 editions
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I Pass Like Night
3.58 avg rating — 1,007 ratings — published 1989 — 23 editions
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The Wheel of Doll
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“I live for coincidences. They briefly give to me the illusion or the hope that there's a pattern to my life, and if there's a pattern, then maybe I'm moving toward some kind of destiny where it's all explained.”
― Jonathan Ames, My Less Than Secret Life: A Diary, Fiction, Essays
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“People don't expect too much from literature. They just want to know they're not alone with being confused.”
― Jonathan Ames
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“I didn't think I was in a morbid mood, but it appears I am. My mind goes round and round trying to figure things out, but I always come back to the same two things: Loneliness and Death. Life ends before we figure anything out, most importantly how not to be lonely. Solitude is fine. But feeling like you have no one to love - abject lonliness - is not alright.”
― Jonathan Ames, My Less Than Secret Life: A Diary, Fiction, Essays
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