ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Frederick Busch’s most recent best-selling book, Girls, was a New York Times Notable Book for 1997 and a Publishers Weekly 1997 Best Book. His sixth short-story collection, The Children in the Woods, was a finalist for the 1995 Pen/Faulkner Award. He has received the Pen/Malamud Award for achievement in short fiction, as well as an award for fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He has won the National Jewish Book Award and has held Woodrow Wilson, National Endowment for the Arts, James Merrill, and Guggenheim fellowships. He has been acting director of the Writers’ Workshop at the University of Iowa. He is the Edgar Fairchild Professor of Literature at Colgate University, where he teaches creative writing and fiction and also teaches the Living Writers course. He and his wife, Judy, the parents of two grown sons, live in upstate New York.