Andrew Winer

Assistant Professor
Office: 4135 INTS
Phone: (951) 827-2007
E-mail: andrew.winer@ucr.edu
Website: www.andrewwiner.com

Andrew Winer's nationally bestselling first novel, The Color Midnight Made, was published in 2002 by Washington Square Press/Simon & Schuster. The Washington Post Book World called it “wholly original . . . sometimes hilarious, sometimes heartbreaking.” "Wise and moving," stated The Dallas Morning News. And Publishers Weekly wrote: "Winer's take on boyhood, with its attendant spasms of bravado and insecurity, always rings true...His imagery is often arresting and he manages to infuse the various domestic upheavals with a dark, damaged lyricism that is deeply affecting."

Winer is also co-author of “Honky!”—an original screenplay that sold to 20th Century Fox/Regency. He received his M.F.A. in creative writing at the University of California at Irvine. Prior to joining the UC Riverside's faculty, Winer taught creative writing at Pomona College and UC Irvine.

Andrew Winer has been awarded a 2004 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship in Prose.

Other praise for The Color Midnight Made:

"Andrew Winer writes wicked funny prose...Every sentence is a surprise and a delight in this poignant story of a boy's growing up at the end of things...Winer absolutely nails the comic/tragic textures of modern urban childhood."
—JANET FITCH, author of White Oleander

“Is it possible to write convincingly about the underbelly of life and at the same time tickle the reader? Andrew Winer has done just that—created a Huck Finn for the new century in this wry, poignant, and very dear first novel.”

—ELINOR LIPMAN, author of The Inn at Lake Devine

"In Conrad Clay, Andrew Winer has created a truly wonderful character whose exposures to the cruelties, joys and broken promises of the adult world are alternately funny and desolating."
—GLEN DAVID GOLD, author of Carter Beats the Devil

"Conrad Clay is a wonderfully memorable character, one who sticks in your head long after the book is over. This novel, like Conrad, brims with charm, and Winer's sharply observed take on a ten-year-old's world, paired with his exuberant language, make for a terrific read."
—AIMEE BENDER, author of An Invisible Sign of My Own

"The Color Midnight Made is a bold book, generous and ambitious, the voice is spot on, and my heart is filled with these characters. Everyone gets a full share of dignity and wit and passion. Without yielding to sentimentality, Andrew Winer has made a lovable character in Conrad Clay--alert to life's risks, hospitable to its lucky breaks, arms open to the world."
—GEOFFREY WOLFF, author of The Duke of Deception

"In the tradition of Roddy Doyle's Paddy Clarke, Ha, Ha, Ha and Tony Earley's Jim the Boy, Andrew Winer has created an indelible portrait of the poetic, painful, often humorous world of Conrad Clay during the last months of childhood. The Color Midnight Made is an illuminating and unabashedly tender novel."
—MARGOT LIVESEY, author of Eva Moves The Furniture

"Dramatic and well written...This quick and impressive read draws the reader in page after page."
—LIBRARY JOURNAL