John Wray (novelist)

His second novel Canaan's Tongue (2005) is based on the legend of the preacher John Murrell, described by Mark Twain in Life on the Mississippi.

His third novel, Lowboy (Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2008), is narrated by 16-year-old William Heller, a schizophrenic who has just escaped a mental institution and is in flight through the subways of Manhattan.

[4] His fourth novel, The Lost Time Accidents (Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2016), chronicles a century in the life of a family of eccentric physicists, time travelers and cult leaders, and incorporates elements of science fiction and fantasy in its plot.

His fifth novel, Godsend (Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2018), was inspired by the story of John Walker Lindh.

Wray was also frontman of the Brooklyn band Marmalade, which released the album Beautiful Soup in 2003.