Biography
Born in Brooklyn Hospital and raised as a latchkey kid in a brownstone in Prospect Heights during the '70s and '80s, James E. Graham ("Jamie” to his friends), attended nearby P.S. 9 for elementary school, rode the subway to Hunter College High School in Manhattan for grades 7-12, and then crossed the Hudson to earn his BA
in English at Princeton, where he had the good fortune to study under Stuart Dybek, Russell Banks, and Joyce Carol Oates.
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Upon graduating, he obtained an MBA from NYU, spent his 20s in corporate finance and his 30s at a pair of startups, before finally returning to his roots as a writer in his 40s. He now splits time between an apartment in the borough where he grew up and a cabin in Dutchess County, accompanied by his goofy Aussie mix, Barlow, writing the kinds of fantastical stories he read commuting to and from high school on the IRT as a boy.