The Happiest People in the World | Brock Clarke | Talks at Google

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Author Brock Clarke visited Google's Cambridge, MA office to discuss his novel, "The Happiest People in the World". The book chronicles the misadventures of a hapless Danish cartoonist who is forced to assume a new identity after publishing a controversial cartoon.

Brock Clarke is the author of six books, including "The Happiest People in the World" and "An Arsonist’s Guide to Writers’ Homes in New England", which was a national bestseller and has appeared in a dozen foreign editions. His stories and essays have appeared in a number of prestigious publications. He received a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in 2008, and has twice been a finalist for the National Magazine Award for Fiction. He teaches creative writing at Bowdoin College in Maine.

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