Starbuck O'Dwyer, a native of Rochester, New York and a graduate of Princeton, Oxford and Cornell, writes novels, essays, short stories, screenplays and music under his given middle name. Presently available in eleven languages, his novels and story collections have registered sales in over 40 countries across six continents, reaching national and/or category best-seller lists in the U.S., China, Brazil, Germany and the Netherlands. His critically-acclaimed debut novel, Red Meat Cures Cancer (Random House/Vintage Books), won two national writing awards for humor, appeared on several best-seller lists, and was a featured selection of the 2007 One Book One Vancouver reading program as chosen by the Vancouver Public Library. His writing, which has been described as "comic genius" by Kirkus Reviews, has been published in forums as diverse as Entertainment Weekly, Flaunt, Toro, Japanophile, the Journal News, PW Daily and the Boston Globe, and he has appeared on over 350 radio and television programs including guest spots on ESPN, WGN, Voice of America and PBS. His collection of stories, How to Raise a Good Kid, a finalist in the 2012 Indie Reader Discovery Awards (parenting) and a finalist in the 2011 Foreword Reviews Book of the Year Awards (essays, humor) has been translated into Afrikaans, German, Chinese, Norwegian, Dutch, Italian, Greek, French and Portuguese. Similarly, his second novel, Goliath Gets Up, a finalist in the 2012 Indie Reader Discovery Awards (humor), has been translated into Chinese and Portuguese. His new collection of stories, High School Dance, a gold medalist in the 2016 Global Ebook Awards (humor/comedy) and a finalist in the 2016 Foreword Reviews INDIES Book of the Year Awards (humor), reached #1 on the Amazon kindle best-seller list in both the Humor & Entertainment and Parenting and Relationships categories, and has been translated into Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and Greek. In addition, songs that O'Dwyer has composed have been licensed by both the Telemundo and Country Music Television networks and have been featured in several of their shows. At Princeton, he served as treasurer of the Cap & Gown eating club, co-captained the varsity tennis team, won both the Richard Swinnerton Trophy and the Church Myers Church Trophy (team MVP), and played a key role in helping the team secure its first Ivy League championship in eight years. As a graduate student at Oxford, O'Dwyer was a member of the Oxford Union Society and earned a Full Blue as a member of the varsity Oxford lawn tennis team, helping the Blues team defeat Cambridge in the annual varsity match. After Oxford, O'Dwyer earned his law degree at Cornell University.
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Named one of only two 5-star finalists for the 2012 Indie Reader Discovery Awards in the humor category, Goliath Gets Up is one of the funniest books you will ever read.
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High School Dance is a collection of meaningful, memorable stories about the agony and ecstasy of junior and senior high school that will leave you laughing.
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Named a 2012 Indie Reader Discovery Awards finalist (parenting) and a 2011 ForeWord Reviews Book of the Year finalist, How to Raise a Good Kid is not a conventional "how-to" but rather a collection of 23 humorous and heartwarming stories.
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