Nick Flynn

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film memoir memoirist person playwright poet

Nick Flynn is an American poet, memoirist, and playwright best known for his autobiographical works exploring family, addiction, and identity, including the memoir that inspired the film "Being Flynn."

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awardReceived Guggenheim Fellowship ⓘ
PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry ⓘ
Whiting Writers' Award ⓘ
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basedOn Another Bullshit Night in Suck City ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship United States of America ⓘ
educatedAt New York University ⓘ
employer University of Houston ⓘ
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notableWork Another Bullshit Night in Suck City ⓘ
Being Flynn ⓘ
Blind Huber ⓘ
Some Ether ⓘ
The Captain Asks for a Show of Hands ⓘ
The Reenactments ⓘ
The Ticking Is the Bomb ⓘ
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placeOfBirth Scituate, Massachusetts NERFINISHED ⓘ
residence Brooklyn ⓘ
screenwriter Paul Weitz ⓘ
spouse Lilli Taylor ⓘ
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Being Flynn → authorOfSourceWork → Nick Flynn ⓘ
Lili Taylor → spouse → Nick Flynn ⓘ
Farrar, Straus and Giroux → hasPublished → Nick Flynn ⓘ
Another Bullshit Night in Suck City → author → Nick Flynn ⓘ
Another Bullshit Night in Suck City → character → Nick Flynn ⓘ
Nick Flynn → author → Nick Flynn self-linksurface differs ⓘ
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Jonathan Flynn → createdBy → Nick Flynn ⓘ
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