Ethan Coen's Fake Author Bio as Nudist

 
 

The Coen brothers are two of the greatest screenwriters of all time. Fargo, The Big Lebowski, Burn After Reading… Nearly everything they touch turns to dark-comedy gold.

But Ethan Coen is isn’t just a brilliant screenwriter, it turns out he’s also a hell of a short story writer. His 1998 collection, “Gates of Eden,” is often just as entertaining as his movies—if that could even be possible. His superpower as a writer is creating incredibly strong characters that come alive on the page (usually gangsters or detectives).

At the end of his book, I expected to find the typical author bio. Instead, in the “About the Author” section, there was one final fictional character. I always love it when authors have fun with their own bio, although it can seem forced and lame. In Coen’s case, I was thrown off by the serious tone of the bio, and only halfway through realized it was a joke. And it struck me as hilarious.

Not to be confused with the famous screenwriter, here’s Coen’s full bio as an “accomplished nudist”:


ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Ethan Coen is the Samuel Gelbfisz Professor of English as a Second Language at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He is the author of Homeward Plods: Images of the Cowswain in 18th Century Verse, and For Art's Sake: Schopenhauer's Esthetics. he is married to the Percussionist Grace Buller-George, whose husband Sir Hugh Ayrehead-Maybe of the Austin-Davies Ayrehead-Maybesis Chief Disciplinarian of the Glamorgan Male Choir. They have two children, Alun and Gwynff, as does he. Coen is an accomplished nudist and is the author of a study of Scott's Kenilworth which was universally ignored, as well as of three volumes of poetry or, if any publisher should prefer, one big one.

 
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Of course, there is a real bio on the back sleeve of the book:

 
Ethan Coen bio for Gates of Eden