Danielle Trussoni

Danielle Anne Trussoni is a New York Times, USA Today, and Sunday Times Top 10 bestselling novelist. She has been a Pulitzer Prize in Fiction jurist, and wrote the "Dark Matters" column for the New York Times Book Review for five years, from 2018-2023. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers Workshop, where she was a Maytag Fellow. Her novels have been translated into 33 languages.

Danielle Trussoni in 2011

Quotes

• It can be dangerous, too, getting so involved in the minutiae of a setting.
  • Interview in the Literary Hub by Jane Ciabattari (2023).

• There does seem to be an inclination to find ways to prolong life among people who have the most resources.
  • Interview in the Literary Hub by Jane Ciabattari (2023).

Interview in the Michigan Quarterly Review (2020)

Interview in the Michigan Quarterly Review, University of Michigan, by Chaya Bhuvaneswar.]

• I am always striving to push the limits of categories, and if people have a hard time classifying me, I see that as a very good thing.
• As far as I’m concerned: good writing is good writing, wherever you shelve it.
• My advice to all writers is to spend the time you need learning to write a great story. Read widely and write every day. Don’t limit yourself to a certain kind of writing, and write what inspires you.