Jonathan Ames

Jonathan Ames is an American author of novels and comic memoirs who created the television series Bored to Death and Blunt Talk. Raised in Oakland, New Jersey, he earned an English degree at Princeton University in 1987 and an MFA from Columbia University, and he has taught at Columbia, The New School, and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. In the late 1990s and early 2000s he wrote a column for the New York Press, becoming known for self-deprecating accounts of his experiences. His novels include I Pass Like Night, The Extra Man, and Wake Up Sir!, and he wrote the graphic novel The Alcoholic. The Extra Man became a 2010 film he co-wrote, and You Were Never Really Here became a 2018 film he executive produced. Bored to Death debuted on HBO in 2009, and Blunt Talk aired on Starz for two seasons. He appeared in The Great Buck Howard (2008).