Geoff Dyer (born 1958) is an English author. He has written several novels and non-fiction books, some of which have won literary awards. Dyer was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2005.
Books in order of publication:
Ways of Telling: the work of John Berger. London: Pluto Press. – 1986
The Colour of Memory. London: Jonathan Cape. – 1989
But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz. London: Jonathan Cape. – 1991
The Search. London: Hamish Hamilton. – 1993
The Missing of the Somme. London: Hamish Hamilton. – 1994
Out of Sheer Rage: Wrestling with D. H. Lawrence. U.S. edition. New York: North Point Press. 1998.
Paris Trance. London: Abacus.- 1998
Anglo-English Attitudes: essays, reviews, misadventures 1984–99. London: Abacus. – 1999
What Was True: the photographs and notebooks of William Gedney. – 2000
Selected essays. London: Bloomsbury. – 2001
Yoga for people who can’t be bothered to do it. London: Time Warner. – 2003
The Ongoing Moment. London: Little, Brown. – 2005
Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi. Edinburgh: Canongate. – 2009
Working the Room: essays and reviews, 1999–2010. Edinburgh: Canongate. – 2010
Otherwise Known as the Human Condition: selected essays and reviews, 1989–2010. Minneapolis, MN: Graywolf Press. – 2011
The Colour of Memory. Rev. and updated ed. Edinburgh: Canongate. – 2012
Zona: a book about a film about a journey to a room. U.S. edition. New York: Pantheon. – 2012
Another great day at sea: life aboard the USS George H.W. Bush. Photographs by Chris Steele-Perkins. New York: Pantheon. – 2014
White Sands: Experiences from the Outside World. New York: Pantheon.- 2016
Broadsword Calling Danny Boy. London: Penguin. – 2018
The Street Philosophy of Garry Winogrand. Austin: University of Texas Press. – 2018
See/Saw: Looking at Photographs. Edinburgh: Canongate. – 2021
The Last Days of Roger Federer: And Other Endings. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. – 2022
Homework: A Memoir. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. – 2025
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