Nick Flynn

About

A Massachusetts-born writer and poet, he is known for his PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award-winning poetry collection, Some Ether (2000). His popular 2004 memoir, Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, was adapted into a film.

Before Fame

During his teenage years, he coped with both his father's incarceration and his mother's suicide. He subsequently studied creative writing at New York University.

Trivia

In 2008, he published a play entitled Alice Invents a Little Game and Alice Always Wins.

Family Life

He married actress Lili Taylor in 2009. He and Taylor later became parents to a daughter named Maeve.

Associated With

He is the husband of actress Lili Taylor.