Ripley

  • Pen Center USA Literary Award finalist

  • Amazon Best Book of the Month & Year

  • Vanity Fair Hot Type pick

  • Barnes & Noble Booksellers' Pick

  • iTunes Best Book of the Month

  • NPR pick for 2013

  • Parade 2013 Summer Read

"Neal Thompson constructs an elegant argument: the world Ripley created is the world in which we now live.” -David Shields

“Brilliant…What’s truly unbelievable is that it’s taken us so long to get a full-fledged biography of this great American character…It was worth the wait.” -A.J. Jacobs

"Deliriously entertaining" -Megan Abbott (full review here)

"A Curious Man is a work of real beauty and fun and emotion -- and intense readability. Thompson is the genuine article: smart and witty, empathetic and a pleasure to read." -Darin Strauss

“Like Robert Ripley, Neal Thompson has a nose for the strange and wonderful.  A Curious Man is a rich, compelling read for fans of the exotic and uncanny.” -Stewart O'Nan

"Anyone who wants to understand America needs to read this book … Neal Thompson gives us a vivid portrait of this complex, restless man in all his maniacally conflicted glory." -Ben Fountain

 "Intelligent and gripping … Neal Thompson expertly captures the surprisingly complex character of Robert Ripley, and a life nearly too fantastic to be believed." -Karen Abbott