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Phil Klay

writer, veteran, short story writer

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1983

Phil Klay is an American writer. He won the National Book Award for fiction in 2014 for his first book-length publication, a collection of short stories, Redeployment. In 2014 the National Book Foundation named him a 5 under 35 honoree. His 2020 novel, Missionaries, was named as one of Barack Obama’s favorite books of the year as well as one of The Wall Street Journal's Ten Best Books of the Year.

All Quotes by Phil Klay

“I'd been in college studying English creative writing and history when I made the decision to join the Marines in the runup to the Iraq war.”
— Phil Klay
“If we fetishize trauma as incommunicable, then survivors are trapped - unable to feel truly known by their nonmilitary friends and family.”
— Phil Klay