Starbuck O’Dwyer

Starbuck O’Dwyer, a native of Rochester, New York, and a graduate of Princeton, Oxford and Cornell, writes novels, essays, short stories, screenplays and music under his given middle name. Presently available in eleven languages, his novels and story collections have registered sales in over 40 countries across six continents, reaching national and/or category best-seller lists in the U.S., China, Brazil, Germany and the Netherlands. His critically-acclaimed debut novel, Red Meat Cures Cancer (Random House/Vintage Books), won multiple national writing awards for humor, appeared on several best-seller lists, and was a featured selection of the 2007 One Book One Vancouver reading program as chosen by the Vancouver Public Library.   His writing, which has been described as “comic genius” by Kirkus Reviews, has been published in forums as diverse as Entertainment Weekly, Flaunt, Toro, Japanophile, the Journal News, PW Daily and The Boston Globe, and he has appeared on over 350 radio and television programs including guest spots on ESPN, WGN, Voice of America and PBS.  His collection of stories, How to Raise a Good Kid, a finalist in the 2012 Indie Reader Discovery Awards (parenting) and a finalist in the 2011 Foreword Reviews Book of the Year Awards (both essay and humor categories), has been translated into Afrikaans, German, Chinese, Norwegian, Dutch, Italian, Greek, French and Portuguese.  Similarly, his second novel, Goliath Gets Up, a finalist in the 2012 Indie Reader Discovery Awards (humor), has been translated into Chinese and Portuguese.  His story collection, High School Dance, a 2016 Global Ebook Awards gold medalist (non-fiction humor/comedy) and a 2016 Foreword Reviews INDIES Book of the Year finalist (non-fiction humor), reached #1 on the Amazon kindle best-seller list in both the Humor & Entertainment and Parenting & Relationships categories and has been translated into Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and Greek.  In addition, songs O’Dwyer has composed have been licensed by both the Telemundo and Country Music Television networks and featured in several of their shows.   At Princeton, O’Dwyer served as treasurer of the Cap and Gown Club, co-captained the varsity tennis team, won both the Richard Swinnerton Trophy and the George Myers Church Trophy (the MVP award), and played a key role in securing the team’s first Ivy League tennis championship in eight years. As a graduate student at Oxford, he was a member of the Oxford Union Society and earned a Full Blue competing on the varsity lawn tennis team, winning both singles and doubles matches to help the Oxford Blues beat Cambridge in the annual varsity match.  After Oxford, O’Dwyer earned his law degree at Cornell University and has since held senior legal positions at severals of the world’s largest law firms and corporations.