Bill Buford

Bill Buford
Born	(1954-10-06) 6 October 1954 (age 69) Baton Rouge, Louisiana, U.S.
Occupation	Author, journalist
Alma mater	University of California, Berkeley King's College, Cambridge
Literary movement	Dirty realism
Notable works	Among the Thugs (1990) Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany (2006) Dirt: Adventures in Lyon as a Chef in Training, Father, and Sleuth Looking for the Secret of French Cooking (2020)

William Holmes Buford (born 6 October 1954)^[1] is an American author and journalist. He is the author of the books Among the Thugs and Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany. Buford was previously the fiction editor for The New Yorker, where he is still on staff. For sixteen years, he was the editor of Granta, which he relaunched in 1979. He is also credited with coining the term "dirty realism".