Andrew McCann is an Australian professor and fiction writer. He used the pen name " A. L. McCann" for his first book, ''The White Body of Evening'', to avoid confusion with fellow Australian writer Andrew McGahan. His second fiction book, ''Subtopia'', is a coming-of-age novel that takes place in "south-eastern suburbs in the 1970s, St Kilda in the 1980s and Berlin in the 1990s." He is an Associate Professor of English at

Dartmouth College Dartmouth College ( ) is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States. Established in 1769 by Eleazar Wheelock, Dartmouth is one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the America ...

. He has been called a post-grunge lit writer, a reference to an Australian literary genre from the 2000s which emerged following the 1990s

grunge lit Grunge lit (an abbreviation for "grunge literature") is an Australian literary genre usually applied to fictional or semi-autobiographical writing concerned with dissatisfied and disenfranchised young people living in suburban or inner-city surrou ...

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21st-century Australian novelists Living people Australian male novelists 21st-century Australian male writers Dartmouth College faculty Year of birth missing (living people) {{Australia-writer-stub