Jay McInerney is the author of thirteen books, most recently See You on the Other Side (2026). His other novels are Bright Lights, Big City, Ransom, Story of My Life, Brightness Falls, The Last of the Savages, Model Behavior and The Good Life, which received the Grand Prix Littéraire at the Deauville Film Festival in 2007, and Bright Precious Days. (2016). His short story collection How It Ended was named one of the 10 best books of the year by The New York Times. McInerney’s work has appeared in New York, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, The Guardian, The Times Literary Supplement and The New York Review of Books. He writes a monthly wine column for Town & Country and was previously the wine columnist for The Wall Street Journal and House and Garden. Many of those columns were collected in Bacchus and Me and A Hedonist in the Cellar. In 2006 McInerney won the James Beard MFK Fisher Award for Distinguished Writing. His new wine book, The Juice: Vinous Veritas was published in 2012. McInerney’s screen credits include the screenplay for Gia (1998) starring Angelina Jolie and Bright Lights, Big City (1988), starring Michael J. Fox. In 1989 McInerney was named a Literary Lion by the New York Public Library.
