Patrick Somerville


Patrick Somerville is an American novelist and television writer living in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

Career

Somerville graduated from Cornell University in 2005. Somerville published his debut novel, The Cradle, in 2009 and his second novel This Bright River in 2012. In 2013, he joined the writing staff of The Bridge, where he wrote two episodes of the series. From 2015-17, he was a writer on the HBO series The Leftovers. In October 2016, it was announced that Somerville would write the Netflix series Maniac. In December 2017, he signed a deal to develop new TV and digital projects exclusively for Paramount TV. In October, 2019 it was announced that he would be the writer and showrunner for a 10 episode HBO Max mini-series adaptation of Station Eleven.

Publications

Novels

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