About the Author

Jay Neugeboren is the author of eighteen books, including two prize-winning novels, The Stolen Jew, Before My Life Began, two award-winning books of nonfiction, Imagining Robert, Transforming Madness, and three collections of award-winning stories. His stories have appeared in The Atlantic, Esquire, Virginia Quarterly Review, Best American Short Stories, The O. Henry Prize Stories, and Penguin Modern Stories. He is the only author to have won six consecutive Syndicated Fiction Prizes.

Reviews

Recreates the wonder of the early days of the movies. —Frederick Wiseman [Jay Neugeboren] might not be as famous as some of his compeers, like Philip Roth or John Updike, but it's becoming increasingly harder to argue that he's any less talented. —Kirkus Reviews