Tom Barbash

Tom Barbash is an American author of fiction and nonfiction, as well as an educator and critic.

Career Writer and literary critic Barbash is the author of the novels Dakota Winters and The Last Good Chance, a collection of short stories Stay Up With Me, and the bestselling nonfiction work On Top of the World: Cantor Fitzgerald, Howard Lutnick & 9/11: A Story of Loss & Renewal. His fiction has been published in Tin House, Story, The Virginia Quarterly Review and The Indiana Review. His criticism has appeared in the New York Times and the San Francisco Chronicle.

Honors

Stegner Fellowship, Stanford University MacDowell Colony Fellow California Book Award for First Fiction (2002) James Michener Award (2002) Nelson Algren Award for Short Fiction Recipient, National Endowment of the Arts grant in fiction

Selected works The Last Good Chance: A Novel, Picador (2002) On Top of the World: Cantor Fitzgerald, Howard Lutnick, & 9/11: A Story of Loss & Renewal, Harper (2003) Stay Up With Me, Ecco (2013) Dakota Winters: A Novel, Ecco (2018)

Personal life Barbash grew up in New York City and attended Haverford College. As of 2019 Barbash was living in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife and son.