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MARTIN AMIS
Martin Amis's best sellers include the novels House of Meetings, London Fields, and The Information, as well his memoir, Experience. His work includes more than twenty novels, books of nonfiction and short-story collections, and hundreds of reviews and essays. He has received the Somerset Maugham Award for best first novel and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography. His work is routinely shortlisted for other awards, including the Man Booker Prize. He lives in London.

November 2003 Transcript
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MARIE ARANA
Marie Arana is the editor of the Washington Post Book World. Born in Peru of a Peruvian father and an American mother, she is the author most recently of a novel, Cellophane. Her memoir, American Chica, was a finalist for the PEN-Memoir Award and the National Book Award, and she has also edited a collection of columns, The Writing Life:Writers on How They Think and Work. Arana lives in Washington, DC, and Lima, Peru.

October 2006 Transcript
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PAUL AUSTER
Paul Auster is the best-selling author of thirteen novels (including The Brooklyn Follies, Oracle Night, and The New York Trilogy) and four screenplays (including Smoke and Blue in the Face, which he co-directed with Wayne Wang). In 2006, Auster was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He also won Spain's most prestigious prize for literature-the Premio Principe de Asturias de las Letras. Among his other awards are the Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and the Prix Medicis for the best foreign novel published in France. His work has been translated into thirty-five languages.

December 2003 Transcript
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DOREEN BAINGANA
Doreen Baingana is a Ugandan writer and author of Tropical Fish: Stories Out of Entebbe. The book won the Associated Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) Award in Short Fiction and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for First Book, Africa Region, and was a finalist for the Hurston- Wright Prize for Debut Fiction. She was a two-time finalist for the Caine Prize for African Writing. Her fiction and essays have been published in such journals as Glimmer Train, Chelsea and The Guardian. Baingana lives in the United States and Uganda.

February 2005 Transcript.
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RUSSELL BANKS
Russell Banks is the author of fifteen works of fiction, including the novels Continental Drift, Cloudsplitter, and The Darling, and several short-story collections. Two of his novels, The Sweet Hereafter and Affliction, have been made into award-winning motion pictures. His new novel, The Reserve, is being released in January. His work has received numerous awards and has been widely translated and anthologized. Banks is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and is president of the North American Network of Cities of Asylum. He lives in upstate New York with his wife, the poet Chase Twichell.

December 2004 Transcript
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RICHARD BAUSCH
Richard Bausch is the author of ten novels and seven story collections, including Hello to the Cannibals, The Stories of Richard Bausch, and, most recently, Thanksgiving Night. His new novel, Peace, is coming out from Knopf in April. He has been awarded the PEN/Malamud Award for Short Fiction and his work has appeared in The Atlantic Monthly,The New Yorker, and elsewhere. Other honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writer's Award, and the Award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Editor of The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction, he currently serves as the Moss Chair of Excellence in the Writing Program at the University of Memphis.

November 2003 Transcript
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CHARLES BAXTER
Charles Baxter is the author of four novels, including Saul and Patsy and The Feast of Love, a finalist for the National Book Award, and four books of short stories, most recently, Believers. His new novel, The SoulTthief, is coming out from Pantheon in February. He has published essays on fiction collected in Burning Down the House and, in 2007, Beyond Plot, and has edited or coedited three books of essays. Born in Minneapolis in 1947, he lived for many years in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where he taught at the University of Michigan. Now living in Minneapolis, he is the Edelstein-Keller Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Minnesota.

October 2003 Transcript
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Baxter's Web site:
http://www.charlesbaxter.com/


A. S. BYATT
A. S. Byatt is the author of several novels, books of short stories and criticism. Her works have been translated into at least twenty-eight languages. Possession won the Man Booker Prize and the Irish Times Aer Lingus Prize in 1990. Her most recent novel is A Whistling Woman (2002), the final book in a quartet, which also includes The Virgin in the Garden, Still Life, and Babel Tower. This was followed by Little Black Book of Stories (2003).

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DAN CHAON
Dan Chaon's books include the novel You Remind Me of Me and the short-story collection Among the Missing, which was a finalist for the National Book Award. Chaon's stories have appeared in many journals and anthologies including Best American Short Stories, The O. Henry Prize Stories, and The Pushcart Prize Anthology. He was, most recently, the recipient of the 2006 Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

July 2004 Transcript
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MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM
Michael Cunningham is the author of four novels, including The Hours, which won a Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner award in 1999. His most recent novel is Specimen Days. He is the recipient of a Whiting Writers' Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and a Michener Fellowship from the University of Iowa. He lives in New York City.

January 2004 Transcript
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JOHN DALTON
John Dalton is the author of the novel Heaven Lake, published by Scribner, and winner of the 2004 Barnes and Noble Discover Award and the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He teaches in the writing program at the University of Missouri-St. Louis.

May 2004 Transcript
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Dalton's Web site:
www.daltonnovel.com



E.L. DOCTOROW
E. L. Doctorow's work includes the novels Ragtime, World's Fair, and, most recently, The March, which won him the 2006 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. His other honors include the National Book Award, two National Book Critics Circle awards, the 1990 PEN/Faulkner Award, the Edith Wharton Citation for Fiction, the William Dean Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the presidentially conferred National Medal for the Humanities (1998). He lives and works in New York.

May 2004 Transcript
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ANTHONY DOERR
Anthony Doerr is the author of a short-story collection, The Shell Collector; a novel, About Grace; and a memoir, Four Seasons in Rome: On Twins, Insomnia, and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World. His work has won the New York Public Library's Young Lions Award, the Barnes and Noble Discover Prize, two O. Henry Prizes, two Ohioana Book Awards, and the Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He also writes the "On Science" column for the Boston Globe.

Oct. 2004 Transcript
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Doerr's Web site
www.anthonydoerr.com


STUART DYBEK
Stuart Dybek is the author of three books of fiction, including I Sailed With Magellan and The Coast of Chicago, which was a One Book, One Chicago selection. Dybek has also published two collections of poetry. Among his numerous awards are a PEN/Malamud Award for Short Fiction, a Lannan Literary Award, a Whiting Writers'Award, an award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, several O. Henry Prizes, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. He is Distinguished Writer in Residence at Northwestern University and a member of the permanent faculty for Western Michigan Universit's Prague Summer Program.

March 2004 Transcript
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RICHARD FORD
Richard Ford is the author of three collections of short fiction and six novels, including Independence Day, which won the 1996 Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. His other work includes the short-story collection Rock Springs, and, most recently, the novel The Lay of the Land. Ford has also been awarded the PEN/Malamud Award for Short Fiction. He lives in Maine and New Orleans.

December 2006 Transcript
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TOD GOLDBERG
Tod Goldberg is the author of three books of fiction, including the novel Living Dead Girl, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and, most recently, the short-story collection Simplify. His nonfiction appears regularly in the Los Angeles Times, Las Vegas CityLife, and other publications. He lives in La Quinta, California, with his wife, Wendy, and teaches creative writing at the UCLA Extension WritersÕ Program.

November 2005 Transcript
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Goldberg's Web site
http://todgoldberg.typepad.com/the_books/


ELIZABETH GRAVER
Elizabeth Graver is the author of three novels: Awake, The Honey Thief, and Unravelling. Her short-story collection, Have You Seen Me?, was awarded the 1991 Drue Heinz Literature Prize. Her stories and essays have been anthologized in Best American Short Stories; The O. Henry Prize Stories; Best American Essays; and The Pushcart Prize Anthology. The recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation, she teaches at Boston College and is the mother of two young daughters.

April 2004 Transcript
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Graver's Web site:
www.elizabethgraver.com


SHIRLEY HAZZARD
Shirley Hazzard's first published work of fiction in more than twenty years The Great Fire, won the National Book Award in 2003. Born in Australia, she has written three other novels, including The Bay of Noon (1971) and The Transit of Venus (1981), which won the National Book Critics Circle Award. She is also the author of two collections of short stories and several works of nonfiction, including a memoir on Graham Greene, Greene on Capri. She lives in New York and travels frequently to Italy.

January 2004 Transcript
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PAM HOUSTON
Pam Houston is the author of two collections of linked short stories, Cowboys Are My Weakness, which was the winner of the 1993 Western States Book Award, and Waltzing the Cat, which won the WILLA Award for Contemporary Fiction. Her stories have been selected for volumes of Best American Short Stories, The O. Henry Prize Stories, The Pushcart Prize Anthology, and Best American Short Stories of the Century. Her first novel, Sight Hound, was a finalist for the Colorado Book Award. She is the director of Creative Writing at UCŠDavis and divides her time between Colorado and California.

November 2005 Transcript
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Houston's Web site:
http://www.pamhouston.net/


MAUREEN HOWARD
Maureen Howard is the author of seven novels, including Grace Abounding, Expensive Habits, and Natural History, all of which were nominated for the PEN/Faulkner Award. She has taught at a number of American universities, including Columbia, Princeton, Amherst, and Yale, and was recently awarded the Academy Award in Literature by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives in New York City. Her most recent novel is The Silver Screen.

September 2004 Transcript
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FRANCES ITANI
Frances Itani, a Member of the Order of Canada, grew up in the Province of Quebec and now lives in Ottawa. She has written eleven books, including the international best seller Deafening, which has been translated into seventeen languages; won a Commonwealth Writers' Prize; and was shortlisted for both the International IMPAC Dublin and the William Saroyan International Literary Awards. She has written for Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) radio and reviews for The Washington Post. Her new novel is called Remembering the Bones.

February 2004 Transcript
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GISH JEN
Gish Jen has been published in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, The New Republic, The Los Angeles Times, and The New York Times, as well as in numerous textbooks and anthologies, including The Best American Short Stories of the Century, edited by John Updike. Her books, including Who's Irish?, Typical American, and, most recently, The Love Wife, have been supported by a number of organizations, such as the Lannan Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, the Fulbright Program, and the National Endowment for the Arts. She currently holds a Mildred and Harold Strauss "Living Award" from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

September 2004 Transcript
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EDWARD P. JONES
Edward P. Jones's novel, The Known World, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and the Lannan Literary Award. He also received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2004. His first collection of short stories, Lost in the City, won the Hemingway/PEN Award and was shortlisted for the National Book Award. Most recently, he has published All Aunt Hagar's Children: Stories. He lives in Washington, DC.

October 2003 Transcript
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JHUMPA LAHIRI
Jhumpa Lahiri's debut collection of stories, Interpreter of Maladies, won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the Hemingway/PEN Award, the New Yorker Debut of the Year Award, and an Addison Metcalf Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.Translated into thirty-three languages, it was a best seller in the United States and abroad. Lahiri was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2002 and a National Endowment for the Arts grant in 2006. Her most recent book is The Namesake, her first novel. Born in 1967 in London and raised in Rhode Island, she lives in New York with her husband and two children.

October 2003 Transcript
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ANDREA LEVY
Andrea Levy's most recent novel, Small Island, won the 2004 Orange Prize for Fiction, the Whitbread Novel Award, the Whitbread Book of the Year Award, and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize. It also won the Best of the Best Award, chosen in 2005 from the first ten years of Orange Prize winners. She has written three other novels, including Fruit of the Lemon, and her short stories and reviews have been aired on the BBC and published in The Guardian and elsewhere. She lives in London.

June 2004 Transcript
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MARGOT LIVESEY
Margot Livesey was born and grew up on the edge of the Scottish Highlands. She is the author of a collection of sto- ries and five novels, most recently Eva Moves the Furniture and Banishing Verona. She is the recipient of grants from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts and is currently a writer in residence at Emerson College in Boston.

December 2004 Transcript
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ALICE McDERMOTT
Alice McDermott's Charming Billy won the National Book Award in 1998. She is the author of five other novels, including At Weddings and Wakes, a New York Times best seller, and After This, published in 2006. She lives with her family near Washington, DC.

October 2003 Transcript
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JOHN McNALLY
John McNally is the author of two novels, America's Report Card and The Book of Ralph. His previous collection, Troublemakers, won the John Simmons Short Fiction Award (2000) and was a Book Sense 76 selection. McNally's fiction has appeared in more than forty journals and magazines, and he frequently reviews books for The Washington Post and other newspapers. He has edited five anthologies, most recently When I Was a Loser (Free Press, 2007). A native of Chicago's southwest side, he is the Ollen R. Nalley Associate Professor of English at Wake Forest University. He and his wife, Amy, live in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

March 2004 Transcript
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McNally's Web site
http://www.bookofralph.com/


WALTER MOSLEY
Walter Mosley is the author of more than thirty critically acclaimed books and his work has been translated into twenty-one languages. His popular mysteries featuring Easy Rawlins began in 1990 with Devil in a Blue Dress; his most recent Rawlins novel, Blonde Faith, was published in 2007. He has published three books of literary fiction, including The Man in the Basement, and three books of nonfiction, most recently one about writing: This Year You Write Your Novel. His numerous awards include the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, which honors work that increases understanding of race in America.

January 2004 Transcript (not available)
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THISBE NISSEN
Thisbe Nissen is the author of two novels, Osprey Island and The Good People of New York, and a story collection, Out of the Girls' Room and into the Night. She also coauthored and coillustrated The Ex-Boyfriend Cookbook. A native New Yorker and a graduate of Oberlin College and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, Nissen has been living, writing, teaching, gardening, and collaging in Iowa City since 1995.

August 2004 Transcript
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JOYCE CAROL OATES
Joyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Book Award and the PEN/Malamud Award for Short Fiction. Her many books of fiction and nonfiction include national best sellers We Were the Mulvaneys, Blonde, and The Falls, which won the 2005 Prix Femina. She is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor in the Humanities at Princeton University, and, since 1978, she has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2003, she received the Commonwealth Award for Distinguished Service in Literature and the Kenyon Review Award for Literary Achievement.

October 2003 Transcript
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May 2006 Transcript
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CAROLYN PARKHURST
Carolyn Parkhurst is the author of Lost and Found and the New York Times best-selling novel The Dogs of Babel, which was a Today Show Book Club pick and a New York Times Notable Book and has been translated into twenty languages. She lives in Washington,DC, with her husband and their two children.

November 2003 Transcript
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Parkhurst's Web site
http://www.carolynparkhurst.com/


TIM PARKS
Tim Parks has written eleven novels, including Europa, Judge Savage, and, most recently, Cleaver, as well as three nonfiction accounts of life in northern Italy, two collections of essays, and Medici Money, a history of the Medici bank in fifteenthcentury Florence. His many translations from the Italian include works by Alberto Moravia and Italo Calvino. He lectures on literary translation in Milan and has published a book that analyzes Italian translations of English modernists. Born in Manchester in 1954, he grew up in London and studied at Cambridge and Harvard. In 1981, he moved to Italy, where he has lived ever since.

December 2003 Transcript
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MARISHA PESSL
Marisha Pessl is the author of the New York Times best seller Special Topics in Calamity Physics. It has been translated into eighteen languages and was named one of the ten Best Books of 2006 by The New York Times. She grew up in Asheville, North Carolina, and currently lives in New York City.

October 2006 Transcript
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JOANNA SCOTT
Joanna Scott is the author of seven novels, including Arrogance, and two collections of short fiction, most recently Everybody Loves Somebody. Her fiction and essays have appeared in The Paris Review,HarperÕs, Esquire, and other journals. Her books have been finalists for the Pulitzer Prize, the PEN/Faulkner Award, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Her awards include a MacArthur Fellowship, a Lannan Literary Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Ambassador Book Award from the English-Speaking Union, and the Rosenthal Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She is the Roswell Smith Burrows Professor of English at the University of Rochester.

March 2004 Transcript
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JOAN SILBER
Joan Silber is the author of Ideas of Heaven: A Ring of Stories, a finalist for the National Book Award and the Story Prize. Her four other books of fiction include Household Words,winner of a Hemingway/PEN Award, recently reissued by W.W. Norton. Her work has been chosen for the O. Henry Prize Stories and The Pushcart Prize anthologies and has appeared in The New Yorker, Ploughshares, and The Paris Review. Her new novel, The Size of the World, is coming out with W.W. Norton in June of 2008. She lives in New York City and teaches at Sarah Lawrence College.

November 2004 Transcript
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ALISON SMITH
Alison SmithÕs memoir, Name All the Animals, was a New York Times Notable Book and was named one of the top ten books of 2004 by People magazine.Awards include the Barnes and Noble Discover Award, the Judy Grahn Prize, the Fountain Award for Speculative Fiction, a Lambda Literary Award, and the William Sloane Fellowship. Smith's writing has appeared in Granta, McSweeney's, The London Telegraph, The New York Times, The Believer, and other publications. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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Smith's Web site
http://www.namealltheanimals.com/


ART SPIEGELMAN
Winner of a special Pulitzer Prize in 1992 for his Holocaust narratives in comics form, Maus and Maus II, Art SpiegelmanÕs best-selling collection of 9/11 strips, In the Shadow of No Towers, was a New York Times Notable Book of 2004. Recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and creator of Garbage Pail Kids, his work has been published in many periodicals, including The New Yorker, where he was a staff artist and writer from 1993 to 2003. With his wife, Fran¨oise Mouly, he edited the influential graphics magazine RAW (1980Š1991) and more recently Little Lit, a series of comics anthologies for kids.They live in New York City with their two children, Nadja and Dash. His new book, Breakdowns: Portrait of the Artist as a Young !@#$*! is coming out with Pantheon in Fall 2008.

Oct. 2004 Transcript
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HANNAH TINTI
Hannah Tinti grew up in Salem, Massachusetts. Her work has appeared in various magazines and anthologies, including Best American Mystery Stories 2003. Her short-story collection, Animal Crackers, has sold in fifteen countries and was recently a runner-up for the Hemingway/PEN Award. Her novel, The Good Thief, is coming out in July 2008 from Dial Press. She is the cofounder and editor of One Story magazine.

May 2004 Transcript
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Tinti's Web site
www.hannahtinti.com


COLM T—ib’n
Colm T—ib’n is the author of five novels, including The Master, which won the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the Los Angeles Times Novel of the Year, and the Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger for the best foreign novel published in 2005 in France. Along with The Master, his novel The Blackwater Lightship was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. He has also published several books of nonfiction and, most recently, a collection of stories, Mothers and Sons. Born in Enniscorthy in the southeast of Ireland, he lives in Dublin.

July 2004 Transcript
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CLAIRE TRISTAM
Claire Tristram is the author of the novel After.

May 2004 Transcript
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Tristram's Web site
http://www.clairetristram.com/

TOBIAS WOLFF
Tobias Wolff 's books include the memoirs This Boy's Life and In Pharaoh's Army: Memories of the Lost War; the short novel The Barracks Thief; three collections of stories, including The Night in Question; and, most recently, the novel Old School. In March, Knopf is publishing Our Story Begins: New and Selected Stories. His work is translated widely and has received numerous awards, including the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the PEN/Malamud Award for Short Fiction, the Rea Award for the Short Story, and the Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is the Ward W. and Priscilla B.Woods Professor of English at Stanford University.

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MARY KAY ZURAVLEFF
Mary Kay Zuravleff is the author of The Frequency of Souls and The Bowl Is Already Broken. She has received the Rosenthal Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the James Jones First Novel Fellowship Award. She lives in Washington, DC, and teaches at George Mason University.

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Zuravleff's Web site: http://marykayzuravleff.com/