Tom Bissell was born on January 9, 1974, in Escanaba, Michigan, United States. He is 45 years old as of 2019.

Tom Bissell Net worth

Tom Bissell earns his income from his work as a journalist, critic, and fiction writer. He also earns his income from his businesses and other related organizations. He also earns his income from the Awards industry. He has an estimated net worth of $ 2 million dollars,

Tom Bissell Education

Tom Bissell studied English at Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan. He worked as a book editor in New York City and edited, among other books, The Collected Stories of Richard Yates and Paula Fox’s memoir Borrowed Finery.

Tom Bissell Family

Tom Bissell was born in Escanaba, Michigan, the United States to a military father, his father served in the Marines during the Vietnam War, alongside with author and journalist Philip Caputo.

Tom Bissell Journalist, critic, and fiction writer

Tom Bissell has written for Harper’s Magazine, Slate, The New Republic, and The Virginia Quarterly Review, where he has a contributing editor. While much of Bissell’s magazine writing could be considered travel writing, his articles are more concerned with politics, history, and autobiography than tourism. As a journalist, he traveled to Iraq and Afghanistan during wartime.

His book in collaboration with Jeff Alexander, “Speak, Commentary”, is a collection of fake DVD commentaries for popular films by political figures and pundits such as Noam Chomsky, Dinesh D’Souza and Ann Coulter. His other books have earned him several prizes, including the Rome Prize, the Anna Akhmatova Prize, and the Best Travel Writing Award from Peace Corps Writers.

His journalism work has been anthologized in The Best American Travel Writing, and The Best American Science Writing. While much of Bissell’s writing is concerned with issues of international relations and literary criticism, he frequently references Star Wars, J.R.R. Tolkien, and video games as well. Bissell’s literary work has been recognized and highlighted at Michigan State University in their Michigan Writers Series.

The video game Gears of War 2, the first version of which Bissell wrote about for The New Yorker, contains a character named Hank Bissell, an apparent nod to him. In a March 2010 Observer article, he wrote about the appeal of games like Grand Theft Auto IV and his own simultaneous struggles with an addiction to video games and cocaine.

He wrote about the cult film The Room in a 2010 article (“Cinema Crudité”) published in Harper’s Magazine. In May 2011, he signed on to co-write (with actor Greg Sestero) a closer look at the film – the resultant book, The Disaster Artist, was published by Simon and Schuster in October 2013. Bissell’s story “Expensive Trips Nowhere” was filmed as The Loneliest Planet (2011).

Tom Bissell Approach

While Bissell has been critical of neo-conservatism, the Bush administration, and American unilateralism, his politics often do not fit within established categories of American liberalism and conservatism. Much of his work is concerned with the legacy of the Soviet Union and Communism. He cited Philip Caputo as a major influence, along with Michigan writers Jim Harrison and Thomas McGuane.

Tom Bissell Fiction

In 2005, Tom Bissell published a Pantheon collection of Bissell’s short fiction, God Lives in St. Petersburg: and Other Stories. In the same year, his story Death Defier was published in the Best American Short Stories. His story “Aral” inspired Werner Herzog’s 2016 film Salt and Fire.