Adam Johnson was born in South Dakota and raised in Arizona. He earned a B.A. in journalism from Arizona State University in 1992, an M.F.A. in creative writing from McNeese State University in 1996, and a Ph.D. in English from Florida State University in 2000. He has been the recipient of a Swarthout Writing Award,
Kiran Desai’s is the author of two novels, Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard which won the Betty Trask Prize in 1998, and The Inheritance of Loss, which won the Man Booker in 2006, making her the youngest woman ever to win this prize. It was also awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award and was
John Wray was born in Washington, D.C., in 1971. His three published novels, The Right Hand of Sleep, Canaan’s Tongue and Lowboy, have earned him numerous distinctions, including a Whiting Award, a KEN fiction award, and the 2010 Mary Ellen Van der Heyden Prize from the American Academy in Berlin. In 2007, Granta included him
Donald Ray Pollock grew up in Knockemstiff, Ohio, and is a lifelong resident of that state. He worked thirty-two years as a laborer in a paper mill in Chillicothe before enrolling in the M.F.A. program at Ohio State University in 2005. His first book, Knockemstiff, a collection of short stories, was awarded the PEN/Robert Bingham
Arthur Phillips was born in Minneapolis and educated at Harvard. He has been a child actor, a jazz musician, a speechwriter, a dismally failed entrepreneur, and a five-time Jeopardy! champion. His first novel, Prague, was named a New York Times Notable Book and received The Los Angeles Times/Art Seidenbaum Award for best first novel. His
Lance Olsen was born in 1956 in River Edge, New Jersey, and received his B.A. from the University of Wisconsin (1978, honors), his M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers Workshop (1980), and his M.A. (1982) and Ph.D. (1985) from the University of Virginia. He is author of eleven novels, one hypermedial project, four critical studies, four
Lydia Millet is the author of seven novels as well as a story collection called Love in Infant Monkeys (2009), which was one of three fiction finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. 2011 saw the publication of a novel called Ghost Lights (W.W. Norton), named a New York Times Notable Book, as well as Millet’s first
Barbara Gowdy was born in 1950 in Windsor, Ontario. Four years later, during the most famous hurricane in Canadian history, her family moved to Toronto, where she has lived ever since. She started writing relatively late, after failing at various other careers. Her first novel was the unfortunately titled Through the Green Valley. Published in
John Dufresne has won the Yankee Magazine award for fiction, the Transatlantic Review/Henfield Foundation Award, and a PEN Syndicated Fiction award. His novel Louisiana Power & Light was a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection and a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, 1994. He is also the author of a
Pedro Ángel Palou (born in Puebla, Mexico, 1966) is a prolific novelist and essayist. He has worked in the public service as Minister of Culture and in Higher Education, for fifteen years as Professor of Literature and President of Universidad de las Américas in Puebla (UDLA) and also as a Visiting Professor in Paris (Sorbonne
Eduardo Halfon was born in 1971 in Guatemala City. He moved to the United States with his family in 1981, went to school in South Florida, and then studied Industrial Engineering at North Carolina State University. Later, back in his native Guatemala, he was Literature Professor during eight years at Universidad Francisco Marroquín. Although bilingual,
Brad Watson is the author of three books of fiction, all published by W.W. Norton and Co. Last Days of the Dog-Men (1996) won the Sue Kaufmann Award for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, as well as the Great Lakes Colleges New Writers Award. The Heaven of Mercury (2002) won
David Vann was born in the Aleutian Islands and spent his childhood in Ketchikan, Alaska. For twelve years, no agent would send out his first book, Legend of a Suicide, so he went to sea and became a captain and boat builder. Legend of a Suicide has now won ten prizes, including the Prix Medicis
Valerie Martin was born in Sedalia, Missouri, and grew up in New Orleans, Louisiana, her mother’s family home, where her father was a sea captain. She is the author of nine novels, including Trespass, Mary Reilly, Italian Fever, and Property, three collections of short fiction, and a biography of St. Francis of Assisi, titled Salvation.
Jonathan Dee is the author of five novels, most recently The Privileges, which was a finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize. His new novel, A Thousand Pardons, will be published by Random House in February 2013. He is a Contributing Writer for The New York Times Magazine, a frequent reviewer for Harper’s, and a former
Every book Bonnie Jo Campbell has written has been a critical success. Her first story collection, Women and Other Animals (1999), published by the University of Massachusetts Press just a year after she received her M.F.A. from Western Michigan University, won the AWP award for short fiction and was translated into German; one of the
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