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Robert Goolrick is a Virginia author. His debut novel was A Reliable Wife, published in 2009.

Education
He attended Johns Hopkins University.

Biography
Robert Goolrick grew up in the 1950s in the small college town of Lexington, Virginia. His father was a college professor. His mother was a homemaker and he had two siblings. When Goolrick lost his job as an advertising copywriter, he turned to memoir writing. "The End of the World As We Know It" spotlighted "the excesses and failures of both the social underpinnings of the time and his parents' inevitable alcohol-fueled decline, culminating in a devastating portrayal of the sexual abuse he suffered as a child." In 2015 he moved from Whitestone, Virginia to Weems, Virginia. His first novel sold more than five million copies. His childhood in Virginia. His return to Virginia from New York City. He wrote a memoir and his parents disinherited him, so he moved to New York.

Book Reviews
The End of the World as We Know It.

Heading Out to Wonderful.

The Fall of Princes.

A Reliable Wife. Goolrick cited as an inspiration of this book Wisconsin Death Trip by Michael Lesy.

Robert Goolrick listed his six favorite books for children: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain; Oh, the Places You'll Go! by Dr. Seuss; Canada by Richard Ford; The Patrick Melrose Novels by Edward St. Aubyn; The Family Fang by Kevin Wilson; and Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris.