Leonard Gardner was born in Stockton, California. His short stories and articles have appeared in the Paris Review, Esquire, and Brick, among other magazines. An award-winning screenwriter for film and television, he twice received a Humanitas Prize as well as a Peabody Award for his work on the series NYPD Blue.
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Fat City is a vivid novel of defiance and struggle, of the potent promise of the good life and the desperation and drink that waylay those whom it eludes. Stockton, California, is the novel's setting: the Lido Gym, the Hotel Coma, Main Street's lunchrooms... SEE MORE