Tony D'Souza

Tony D'Souza is a novelist and freelance journalist. He's published three novels with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Whiteman (2006), which won the Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and was a finalist for prizes from PEN, the NY Public Library and the LA Times; The Konkans (2008) which the Washington Post and Poets & Writers called one of the "best novels of the year"; and Mule (2011), praised by Vanity Fair and optioned for film by Warner Bros. Tony has contributed to The New Yorker, Playboy, Esquire, Salon, Granta, Outside, All Things Considered, Mother Jones, McSweeney's and elsewhere, received a Guggenheim, a NEA, a NEA Japan-Friendship Fellowship, an O. Henry, and Florida gold and silver medals for fiction. His non-fiction won Best Writing and Best Environmental Reporting prizes from the California Newspaper Publishers Association, and has been featured on Longform, and TV news programs including Dateline and The Today Show.