John Treat

PO Box 22563, Seattle WA 98122

Biography

John Treat was raised and schooled in New England but has spent most of his adult life living in the Pacific Northwest and Asia. He currently teaches at Yale. He is the author of several book-length works of criticism, one novel, a memoir and many short stories. Treat is at work on a new novel, entitled Walk Run Crawl.

Selected Works

Fiction
The Rise and Fall of the Yellow House
A novel about gay lives in 1980s Seattle
Memoir
Great Mirrors Shattered
John Treat, a teacher living in Tokyo, encounters AIDS panic in 1980s Japan.
Criticism
Writing Ground Zero: Japanese Literature and the Atomic Bomb
The first history of Japan's literary and cultural response to the unprecedented use of nuclear weapons in Hiroshima and Nagasaki