About the Author

L. Shapley Bassen's The End of Shakespeare & Co. was the winner of the 2009 Atlantic Pacific Press Drama Prize. She was a 2011 Flan- nery O'Connor Award finalist and is a fiction editor for prickofthe spindle.com. Ms. Bassen also won a Mary Robert Rinehart Fellow- ship for German Sabbath, which was published in 2014 as Summer of the Long Knives, about the successful assassination of Adolf Hitler. She has been published in numerous print and online publications, including Kenyon Review and American Scholar. She is a produced and published playwright and a commissioned co-author of a WWII memoir. A Vassar grad, she has been married for four decades and lives in Rhode Island.