Jonathan Ames was born in New York City in 1964.
He is the author of the graphic novel The Alcoholic, and the novels I Pass Like Night, The Extra Man, and Wake Up, Sir!, and the essay collections What's Not to Love?, My Less Than Secret Life, and I Love You More Than You Know. He is also the editor of Sexual Metamorphosis: An Anthology of Transsexual Memoirs.
Ames is the winner of a Guggenheim Fellowship and is a former columnist for New York Press. His next book, a collection of fiction and non-fiction, The Double Life is Twice As Good, will be published by Scribner in July 2009.
Wake Up, Sir! and The Extra Man are in development as films, with Ames writing the screenplays. He also adapted What's Not to Love? as a TV special for the Showtime network.
He performs frequently as a storyteller and comedian and has been a recurring guest on The Late Show with David Letterman.
Jonathan Ames currently lives and works in New York City.
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