Joseph O'Neill

Joseph O'Neill has written five novels, most recently Godwin (June 2024), The Dog (2014), and Netherland (2008). He is also the author of a family history, Blood-Dark Track (2001), and the short-story collection Good Trouble (2018). O'Neill's short stories appear regularly in the New Yorker. His essays appear in the New York Review of Books and the Guardian.

Netherland won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and the Kerry Fiction Prize, and was longlisted for the Booker Prize. The Dog was longlisted for the Booker Prize and shortlisted for the Wodehouse Prize.

Joseph O'Neill was born in Ireland and grew up in Mozambique, Iran, and The Netherlands. He worked as a barrister in London for more than a decade, then in 1998 moved to New York. He lives in Brooklyn and teaches at Bard College.