Author Thierry Sagnier

Thierry Sagnier is a writer and Pushcart Prize Nominee whose works have been published in the United States and abroad. He is the author of The IFO Report, (Avon Books), Bike! Motorcycles and the People who Ride Them (Harper & Row) and Washington by Night (Washingtonian Books). Apprentice House Press  published his two historical novels,  L’Amérique and Montparnasse, and nominated Montparnasse for a Pulitzer Prize in fiction. Thirst and Dope, the first two novels in a trilogy, were published by 4th Loyd Productions. Vice, the third book in the trilogy, will be published in 2022.

His short story Lunch with the General, published in Chrysalis Reader, was nominated for a 2013 Pushcart Prize, an American literary prize that honors the best “poetry, short fiction, essays or literary whatnot published in the small presses.” He is also the author of an online works published by Pigasus Books.  Writing about People, Places and Things is a collection of essays chronicling Sagnier’s thoughts on writing, family and friendships, and his bout with cancer.

Sagnier was born in France and came to the United States in his early teens. He has worked and written for The Washington Post and several other newspapers and magazines, produced videos and short films for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and was a columnist for Canada’s Le Devoir and Switzerland’s Le Journal de Genève. He resides in Virginia.

He is represented by the Philip Spitzer Literary Agency which is promoting his latest novel, Lurid Tales, Desperate People.