John Burnham Schwartz is the author of the acclaimed novels Bicycle
Days, Reservation Road, Claire Marvel and The Commoner, which was made
into a motion picture based on his screenplay. His writing has
appeared in many publications, including The New York Times and The
New Yorker, and his books have been translated into over two dozen
languages. He has taught at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, Harvard
University, and Sarah Lawrence College, and he is currently the
Literary Director of the Sun Valley Writers' Conference. He lives in
Brooklyn with his wife, screenwriter and food writer Aleksandra
Crapanzano, and their son, Garrick.
Helen Schulman is the author of the novels This Beautiful Life, A Day At The Beach, P.S., The Revisionist and Out Of Time, and the short story collection Not A Free Show. P.S. was also made into a feature film starring Laura Linney and was written by Helen Schulman & Dylan Kidd. She co-edited, along with Jill Bialosky, the anthology Wanting A Child. Her fiction and non-fiction have appeared in such places as Vanity Fair, Time, Vogue, GQ, The New York Times Book Review and The Paris Review. She is presently the Fiction Coordinator at The Writing Program at The New School where she is a tenured Associate Professor.
Simon Van Booy grew up in rural Wales. He is the author of The Secret
Lives of People in Love and Love Begins in Winter, which won the Frank
O’Connor International Short Story Award. He is the editor of three
philosophy books, titled Why We Fight, Why We Need Love, and Why Our
Decisions Don’t Matter, and his essays have appeared in the New York
Times, The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, and on NPR. He lives in New
York City with his family, where he teaches at the School of Visual
Arts and is involved in the Rutgers Early College Humanities program
for young adults living in underserved communities. A finalist
for the Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise, his work has been
translated into thirteen languages. His debut novel, EVERYTHING
BEAUTIFUL BEGAN AFTER was released in July 2011 from Harper Perennial.
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