Patton Oswalt

Patton Oswalt is an American stand-up comedian, actor, and writer, a Grammy-winning comic known for verbose, pop-culture-saturated routines and screen roles from Ratatouille to The King of Queens. A lifelong obsessive of film, comics, and genre fiction, he brings that fixation to the page. His books blend memoir with cultural criticism, chronicling a misfit adolescence, a year lost inside a repertory cinema’s film addiction, and the nerdy passions that shaped a comedian’s mind.