 Wang Shuo was born in Nanjing
in 1958. He graduated from Beijing 44th High School in 1976.
He spent four years in the Navy and after he was discharged from
the Navy, he worked as a clerk in a retail pharmacy store and
held a variety of odd and shady jobs, while starting to write.
In 1983 he quit his job to become an independent writer; in 1984
he his first book titled "Air Stewardesses" was published.
In 1997 he visited the U.S. Wang's over twenty novels have sold
nearly 10 million copies. He has written TV series, scripts for
movies, directed the cult film "In the Heat of the Sun,"
and even written songs. Beloved by Chinese students and workers
alike for celebrating the dark corners of new China, he has never
lost touch with the low-life slackers who populate his fiction.
He now divides his time between Beijing and working on a new
film project with Wayne Wang in California. New York Times calls
him "China's Kerouac" and Stephen King says of his
work Playing for Thrills, "The most brilliantly entertaining
'handboiled' novel of the 1990s. . . call it China noir. If you
can imagine Raymond Chandler crossed with Bruce Lee (or maybe
Richard Brautigan crossed with John Woo), that gives you the
flavor."
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