Tony D’Souza is an American novelist, journalist, essayist, reviewer, travel, and short story writer. He has published three novels with the publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt including Whiteman (2006), The Konkans (2008), and Mule (2011).
D’Souza was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois. While attending Carthage College, he studied fiction. He later earned his master’s degree in writing from the University of Notre Dame and Hollins University
His first published story won the Black Warrior Review’s award for fiction in 1999. His short story “Club des Amis” was published in The New Yorker, and D’Souza later included the essay as a part of his first novel, Whiteman, published in 2006. Whiteman garnered many awards – the Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the New York Times Editor’s Pick, People Magazine Critic’s Choice, the Florida Gold Medal for General Fiction, and was named one of the “greatest fiction travel books of all time” by Condé Nast Traveler.
His second novel, The Konkans, was published in 2008 and was called “the best novel of the year” by The Washington Post.
Published in 2011, Mule was praised by Entertainment Weekly, San Francisco Chronicle, Kirkus Reviews, Library Journal, and Booklist. It was also optioned for film by Hunting Lane Films.
D’Souza has received a 2006 NEA Fellowship, a 2007 NEA Japan Friendship Fellowship, and a 2008 Guggenheim Fellowship in Creative Arts-Fiction. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, Playboy, Esquire, Outside, Mother Jones, Salon, Granta, Tin House, and McSweeney’s. He detailed his coverage of Nicaragua’s Eric Volz murder trial on The Today Show, Dateline, Bill Kurtis Investigates, E! Channel, the BBC, and NPR. (Collected from the public domain)
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