Contributing Writers
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Baxter's Web site:
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Dalton's Web site:
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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CLAIRE TRISTAM
Claire Tristram is the author of the novel After.
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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/
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