Mr. James Magruder

James Magruder is a Baltimore-based fiction writer, playwright, and translator. His adaptations of works by Marivaux, Moliere, Gozzi, Hofmannsthal, Lesage, and Dickens have been produced on and off-Broadway, across the country, and in Germany and Japan. His debut novel, Sugarless , was a Lambda Award finalist and shortlisted for the 2010 William Saroyan International Writing Prize. His linked story collection, Let Me See It , was published by TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press in...See more

James Magruder is a Baltimore-based fiction writer, playwright, and translator. His adaptations of works by Marivaux, Moliere, Gozzi, Hofmannsthal, Lesage, and Dickens have been produced on and off-Broadway, across the country, and in Germany and Japan. His debut novel, Sugarless , was a Lambda Award finalist and shortlisted for the 2010 William Saroyan International Writing Prize. His linked story collection, Let Me See It , was published by TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press in June 2014. He teaches dramaturgy at Swarthmore College. See less