American · b. 1941
Marcel Theroux writes speculative fiction with literary ambitions. "Far North" (2009), shortlisted for the National Book Award, follows a lone survivor in a post-apocalyptic Siberia; the climate has collapsed, civilization has ended, and a woman patrols an abandoned settlement. Theroux—son of writer Paul Theroux—began as a journalist and television presenter. His novels share a fascination with collapse: social, environmental, personal.