Winner of the Whiting Award and the Thurber Prize for Humor, Frazier has been writing for The New Yorker since 1974. His work has ranged from the wild satirical fiction of "The Cursing Mommy’s Book of Days" to the insightful regional studies of "The Great Plains," "On the Rez," and "Travels in Siberia."

Ian Frazier has been contributing to The New Yorker since 1974, when he published his first piece in The Talk of the Town. A year later, the magazine ran his first short story, “The Bloomsbury Group Live at the Apollo.” Since then, he has published numerous short stories, as well as nonfiction, "Shouts & Murmurs," and "Talk of the Town" pieces, in the magazine. In 2012, he revived the annual Christmas poem, “Greetings, Friends!,” originated by Frank Sullivan in 1933.

He has twice won the Thurber Prize for American Humor, for his collections, “Dating Your Mom” (1985) and “Lamentations of the Father” (2008). His most recent book is “Cranial Fracking” (2021), another humor collection. Most of the pieces in those three books also appeared in The New Yorker.

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