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John Barrett " Jay" McInerney Jr. (; born January 13, 1955) is an American , , , and . A slideshow of the best dressed authors, Vanity Fair His novels include Bright Lights, Big City, Ransom, Story of My Life, , and The Last of the Savages. He edited The Penguin Book of New American Voices, wrote the screenplay for the 1988 film adaptation of Bright Lights, Big City, and co-wrote the screenplay for the television film , which starred . He was the wine columnist for House & Garden magazine, and his essays on wine have been collected in Bacchus & Me (2000) and A Hedonist in the Cellar (2006). His most recent novel is titled Bright, Precious Days, published in 2016. From April 2010 he was a wine columnist for The Wall Street Journal. In 2009, he published a book of short stories which spanned his entire career, titled How It Ended, which was named one of the 10 best books of the year by of The New York Times.


Early life and education
McInerney was born in 1955 in Hartford, Connecticut, the son of Marilyn Jean (Murphy) and John Barrett McInerney Sr., a corporate executive. He graduated from in 1976. At Syracuse University, he earned a Master of Arts in English and studied writing with .


Career
After working as a fact-checker at The New Yorker, McInerney achieved fame with his first published novel, Bright Lights, Big City. Published in 1984, the novel was unique at the time for its depiction of culture in second-person narrative. The title is taken from a 1961 song by .
(2025). 9780810877726, Scarecrow Press. .
The novel established McInerney's reputation as part of a new generation of writers. Labelled the 'literary brat pack' in a 1987 article in the , McInerney, Bret Easton Ellis and were presented as the new face of literature: young, iconoclastic and fresh. Five novels followed: Ransom, Story of My Life, , The Last of the Savages and Model Behavior.

After the success of Bright Lights, Big City, publishers started looking for similar works about young people in urban settings. Ellis's Less than Zero, published in 1985, was promoted as following McInerney's example. McInerney, Ellis and Janowitz were based in New York City and their lives there were the subject of heavy media coverage.

Ellis used McInerney's character, Alison Poole ( Story of My Life), in his novels and . McInerney revealed that the character of Alison Poole is based upon his former girlfriend, Rielle Hunter, then known as Lisa Druck. He described the character as "cocaine addled," and "sexually voracious" but also treated her with some sympathy. McInerney's roman à clef opened a prescient glimpse into the notorious scandal, which did not become known to the public until 1992, when Sports Illustrated magazine published a confession from the man who had murdered Lisa Druck's horse at her father's behest, in order to claim the insurance on its life.

McInerney also has a cameo role in Ellis's , attending the Halloween party Bret hosts at his house. It was later revealed that McInerney was not pleased with his representation in the novel.

Throughout his career, McInerney has struggled against the image of himself as both the author and protagonist of Bright Lights, Big City. In 2009, he said in an interview, "Obviously, I'm no longer a 25-year-old bon vivant, but that gave me what I always wanted: the opportunity to be a full-time writer. It hasn't been entirely fair to my other books, and I've had to deal with a lot of idiocy on the part of the critics and the cultural commentators." He appeared at as the commencement speaker for the Class of 2010.


Personal life
His first wife was fashion model Linda Rossiter. His second wife was writer Merry Reymond. For four years he lived with fashion model .Barber, Lynn, The Observer (September 10, 2000) Interview: Jay McInerney "The beautiful and the damned" His third marriage, to Helen Bransford, lasted nine years, and the couple had children, John Barrett McInerney III and Maisie Bransford McInerney. In 2006, he married .


Bibliography

Novels
  • Bright Lights, Big City (1984)
  • Ransom (1985)
  • Story of My Life (1988)
  • The Last of the Savages (1997)
  • Model Behavior (1998)
The Calloway trilogy


Short fiction
Collections
Stories
"The Queen and I"1996
(1996). 9780747528951, Bloomsbury. .
(2025). 9780307268051, Alfred A. Knopf. .
Con doctor
(2025). 9780307268051, Alfred A. Knopf. .
"Everything is lost"2009
"In the North-West Frontier Province"
(2025). 9780307268051, Alfred A. Knopf. .
"Invisible fences"
"The Madonna of turkey season"
"My public service"
"Smoke"


Nonfiction
  • Bacchus and Me: Adventures in the Wine Cellar (2000)
  • A Hedonist in the Cellar: Adventures in Wine (2006)
  • The Juice: Vinous Veritas (2012)


Critical studies and reviews of McInerney's work

Film
  • McInerney wrote the screenplay for the 1988 film adaptation of Bright Lights, Big City. Directed by , it stars Michael J. Fox, Kiefer Sutherland, and .


Television
  • McInerney appeared in the series as the fictional novelist Jeramiah Harris, mentor to aspiring writer
  • For , a television series for HBO created by , McInerney wrote the second episode "Getting Rid Of Robert", which was directed by .
  • McInerney was interviewed for an episode of the ITV series The South Bank Show about Bret Easton Ellis.
  • In 2013 McInerney presented a documentary on writer F. Scott Fitzgerald for the series The Culture Show.

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