Jim Lewis (novelist)  Jim Lewis (born 1963, in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American novelist. He received a degree in philosophy from Brown University in 1984, and an M.A. in the same subject from Columbia University, before deciding to leave academia. Since then, he has published three novels, "Sister" (published by Graywolf in 1993), "Why the Tree Loves the Ax" (published by Crown in 1998), and "The King is Dead" (published by Knopf in 2003). All three have been published in the UK as well, and individually translated into several languages, including French, Norwegian, Portuguese, and Greek. A fourth novel, tentatively entitled "Ghosts of New York," is scheduled for publication in February 2021. In addition to his novels, he has written extensively on the visual arts, for dozens of magazines, from "Artforum" and "Parkett to "Harper's Bazaar";" and contributed to 30 artist monographs, for museums around the world, among them, "Richard Prince" at The Whitney Museum of American Art, "Jeff Koons" at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, "Christopher Wool" at The Los Angeles Museum of Art, and a "Larry Clark" retrospective at the Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. He has also written criticism and reportage for a wide range of publications, among them "The New York Times", "Slate", "Rolling Stone", "GQ", and "Vanity Fair". His essays have appeared in "Granta", and "Tin House", among others. He has collaborated with the photographer Jack Pierson on a small book called "Real Gone" (published by Artspace Books in 1993), with Cecily Brown on the book "The Eglish Garden," (KARMA, 2015) and with Larry Clark on the story for the movie "Kids". He currently lives in Austin, Texas.