Jordan Ellenberg is the author of The Grasshopper King. He was born in 1971 and grew up in Potomac, Maryland. He recieved his undergraduate and doctorate degrees from Harvard and his masters degree from Johns Hopkins, and is now a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Wisconsin Madison. His column, Do the Math, appears regularly in Slate, and his articles on mathematical topics have been published in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, Seed, Wired, and the Believer.

Praise for The Grasshopper King“Light, amusing, and carefully crafted as it is, The Grasshopper King is a cautionary tale about the perils of precision.” —The Washington Post“A delightful little novel.” —American Book Review“The funniest campus novel in ages, and a slippery, serious-minded investigation of what happens when good languages go bad.” —Rain Taxi“Like reading Murakami, readers will find themselves in a world that is so absurd, yet so palpable. Writing with wit and cleverness, Ellenberg moves deftly among moments of poignancy, satire, and slapstick comedy to make The Grasshopper King an entertaining and worthwhile read.” —Manitou Messenger"The funniest send-up of academia since Jane Smiley’s Moo.” —ForeWord magazine“Speedy, smart, and winsome meditations on immortality and obscurity.” —The Believer“Clever without pretentiousness, filled with enduring absurdity, bittersweet feelings and quirky characters.” —Ripsaw News“A brilliant debut: Jordan Ellenberg’s The Grasshopper King is perhaps the funniest and best-written ‘college’ novel I’ve read since Pale Fire—with a considerably more appealing cast of characters than Nabokov’s.” —John Barth“Jordan Ellenberg’s one of the funniest, flashiest, zaniest, cleverest and also one of the most intelligent and knowledgeable new young writers around.” —Stephen Dixon

Jordan Ellenberg is the author of The Grasshopper King. He was born in 1971 and grew up in Potomac, Maryland. He recieved his undergraduate and doctorate degrees from Harvard and his masters degree from Johns Hopkins, and is now a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Wisconsin Madison. His column, Do the Math, appears regularly in Slate, and his articles on mathematical topics have been published in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, Seed, Wired, and the Believer.

Praise for The Grasshopper King“Light, amusing, and carefully crafted as it is, The Grasshopper King is a cautionary tale about the perils of precision.” —The Washington Post“A delightful little novel.” —American Book Review“The funniest campus novel in ages, and a slippery, serious-minded investigation of what happens when good languages go bad.” —Rain Taxi“Like reading Murakami, readers will find themselves in a world that is so absurd, yet so palpable. Writing with wit and cleverness, Ellenberg moves deftly among moments of poignancy, satire, and slapstick comedy to make The Grasshopper King an entertaining and worthwhile read.” —Manitou Messenger"The funniest send-up of academia since Jane Smiley’s Moo.” —ForeWord magazine“Speedy, smart, and winsome meditations on immortality and obscurity.” —The Believer“Clever without pretentiousness, filled with enduring absurdity, bittersweet feelings and quirky characters.” —Ripsaw News“A brilliant debut: Jordan Ellenberg’s The Grasshopper King is perhaps the funniest and best-written ‘college’ novel I’ve read since Pale Fire—with a considerably more appealing cast of characters than Nabokov’s.” —John Barth“Jordan Ellenberg’s one of the funniest, flashiest, zaniest, cleverest and also one of the most intelligent and knowledgeable new young writers around.” —Stephen Dixon