Bio

Aaron Shulman is the author of the non-fiction historical narrative The Age of Disenchantments: The Epic Story of Spain’s Most Notorious Literary Family and the Long Shadow of the Spanish Civil War (Ecco/HarperCollins, 2019), which The New York Times called an “intriguing narrative of literary ambition and family dysfunction — betrayal, drug addiction and madness.”

After growing up in Michigan, Aaron attended Johns Hopkins University as an undergrad and then the University of Montana, where he received his MFA in creative writing. A former Fulbright scholar, his work has appeared in The New York Times, The Believer, The New Republic, The American Scholar, The Wall Street Journal, El País (Spain), Hazlitt, and the Los Angeles Review of Books, among many other places. He is the co-founder of the book-collaboration agency Splash Literary, with Lauren Hamlin. 

Aaron writes the Substack It’s Only Literature and is currently working on a book about the life and afterlife of Roberto Bolaño, which will come out in 2028. He lives in Barcelona with his wife, the artist Elisa Ortega Montilla, and their daughter.