Harrison Scott Key

Harrison Scott Key is the author of The World's Largest Man , winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor, and Congratulations, Who Are You, Again? . Harrison's TEDx talk about the challenges and rewards of creative ambition ("The Funny Thing About the American Dream") is featured on TED.com, and his humor and nonfiction have appeared in The Best American Travel Writing , Oxford American , Outside , The New York Times , McSweeney's Internet Tendency , Bitter Southerner , Town & Country , The...See more

Harrison Scott Key is the author of The World's Largest Man , winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor, and Congratulations, Who Are You, Again? . Harrison's TEDx talk about the challenges and rewards of creative ambition ("The Funny Thing About the American Dream") is featured on TED.com, and his humor and nonfiction have appeared in The Best American Travel Writing , Oxford American , Outside , The New York Times , McSweeney's Internet Tendency , Bitter Southerner , Town & Country , The Mockingbird , Salon , Reader's Digest , Image , Southern Living , Gulf Coast , Creative Nonfiction , and elsewhere. He has spoken and performed on radio ( Snap Judgement , WNYC Studios) and for hundreds of festivals, bookstores, conferences, variety shows, and universities. He lives in Savannah, Georgia. See less