McInerney, Jay (1955– )

US novelist. His first novel, Bright Lights, Big City (1984), was a richly comic portrait of a bright young man in Manhattan society, and became a literary sensation. It was followed by Ransom (1985) and The Story of My Life (1988). His later work includes the novels Brightness Falls (1996), The Last of the Savages (1998), and Model Behavior (1998); and collections of short stories New York Stories (contributor, 1990) and How it Ended (2000).