Authors

Robert Jones Jr.’s writings have been featured in The New York Times, Essence, The Paris Review, and the anthologies Four Hundred Souls and The 1619 Project. His debut novel, The Prophets (G.P. Putnam’s Sons), was a finalist for the 2021 National Book Award for fiction and a New York Times bestseller. The book tells the story of Isaiah, who was Samuel’s, and Samuel, who was Isaiah’s. That was how it was from the beginning and how it was to be until the end. In the barn, they tended to the animals and each other, transforming the shed into a human refuge, a source of intimacy and hope in a world ruled by vicious masters. But when an older man – a fellow slave – seeks to gain favor by preaching the master’s gospel on the plantation, the enslaved begin to turn on their own, and Isaiah and Samuel’s love is called out as sinful and dangerous to the plantation’s harmony. As tensions build and the weight of centuries culminates in a climactic reckoning, The Prophets reveals the pain and suffering of inheritance. But it is also a story shot through with hope, beauty, truth, and the power of love.

Cae Joseph-Massena is an assistant professor at the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at the University of Miami, as well as a singer and songwriter.

Juanes (Carolina del Príncipe, Antioquia, Colombia, 1972) Cantante, compositor y músico colombiano. Juanes es el nombre artístico de Juan Esteban Aristizábal Vásquez. Fue miembro de la banda de rock Ekhymosis hasta que lanzó su carrera de solista con el álbum Fíjate bien en 2000, al que le siguieron Un día normal (2002), Mi sangre (2004), La vida es… un ratico (2007), P.A.R.C.E. (2010), Mis planes son amarte (2017), Más futuro que pasado (2019) y Origen (2021). Ha recibido 26 Grammy, ha vendido 20 millones de discos a lo largo de su carrera artística y fue seleccionado por la revista TIME como una de “las cien personas más influyentes en el mundo”. Juanes viene a la Feria para presentar su biografía escrita por Diego Londoño y publicada por el sello Aguilar de Penguin Random House este año.

Ignacio Julià started writing about film and music in underground magazine Star in 1977. A contributor to Vibraciones and Rock Espezial, in 1985 he co-founded rock ʼnʼ roll monthly Ruta 66. During the 1990s he hosted an alternative rock show at Catalunya Radio and produced programs for Barcelona TV. He still writes about rock culture for Spain’s leading newspaper, El País. Author of books on John Lennon and Neil Young, he translated Bruce Springsteenʼs autobiography and a Lester Bangs anthology. In English, he published Sonic Youth’s oral history, I Dreamed of Noise, and now Linger On: The Velvet Underground (Ecstatic Peace Library), the definitive collection of his interviews with all members of the iconic, New York-born band, dating back to the 1970s.

Michio Kaku is the author of several science books, including Beyond Einstein, The Future of Humanity, The Future of the Mind, Hyperspace, Physics of the Future, and Physics of the Impossible. A co-founder of string field theory, Kaku is also the science correspondent for CBS This Morning, the host of the radio programs Science Fantastic and Exploration, and a host of several science-focused TV specials for the BBC and the Discovery and Science channels. The God Equation: The Quest for the Theory of Everything (Anchor) explores the quest for the holy grail of physics that would explain the creation of the universe. Since Newton discovered the law of gravity, physicists have been placing new forces into ever-grander theories. But perhaps the ultimate challenge is synthesizing the two remaining theories – relativity and quantum theory. This would be the crowning achievement of science, a magnificent equation to unlock its deepest mysteries: What happened before the Big Bang? What lies on the other side of a black hole? Are there other universes and dimensions? Is time travel possible? Why are we here? And what’s at stake is nothing less than our conception of the universe.

Alma Katsu is the author of six novels, including Red Widow, The Deep, and The Hunger. Before publishing her first novel, Katsu had a long career as a senior intelligence analyst for several U.S. agencies. It’s 1944 in The Fervor: A Novel (G.P. Putnam’s Sons), and as World War II rages on, the threat has come to the homefront. In a remote corner of Idaho, Meiko Briggs and her daughter, Aiko, are desperate to return home. Following Meiko’s husband’s enlistment as an Air Force pilot in the Pacific months prior, she and Aiko were taken from their home in Seattle and sent to one of the internment camps in the Midwest. It didn’t matter that Aiko was American born: They were Japanese and therefore considered a threat by the American government. Mother and daughter attempt to hold on to elements of their old life in the camp as a mysterious disease begins to spread among those interned. Meiko and Aiko team up with a newspaper reporter and widowed missionary to investigate – something sinister is afoot. Inspired by the Japanese “yokai” and the “jorogumo” spider demon, Fervor explores the horrors of the supernatural beyond just the threat of the occult.

Jonathan M. Katz is a journalist and author. His first book, The Big Truck That Went By: How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster, was a PEN Literary Award finalist and won the Overseas Press Club of America’s Cornelius Ryan Award for the year’s best book on international affairs. He is also a recipient of the James Foley/Medill Medal for Courage in Journalism. He is a regular contributor to The New York Times, Foreign Policy, and other publications. In Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America’s Empire (St. Martin’s Press), Katz traces the story of the most celebrated warfighter of his time. Butler went wherever the flag went. He served in nearly every major overseas conflict from the Spanish War of 1898 until the eve of World War II. He helped annex the Philippines and the land for the Panama Canal, led troops in China (twice), and helped invade and occupy Nicaragua, Puerto Rico, Haiti, and Mexico. Yet in retirement, Butler turned against the war, big business, and imperialism, declaring: “I was a racketeer for capitalism.” Gangsters traces the rise of the U.S. global empire in the early 20th century and its legacies today.

After managing one of the country’s leading independent bookstore cafes and working in publishing, Donna Paz Kaufman founded The Bookstore Training Group of Paz & Associates in 1992 with the mission of helping booksellers build skills and insights so that they may lead healthy, life-driven, profitable independent bookstores. Today, she and her husband, Mark, also own Story & Song Bookstore Bistro, a bookstore café and arts venue in Amelia Island, Florida.

Michelle Kaufman has been a sportswriter for 35 years. She has covered 14 Olympics; six World Cups; numerous Wimbledons, French Opens, and U.S. Opens; and NCAA Final Fours, Super Bowls, World Series, and NBA Finals. Her assignments have taken her to South Africa, Australia, Japan, South Korea, China, Russia, Cuba, Argentina, Brazil, Norway, Greece, Italy, France, England, Germany, Canada, and Spain. Her career began in 1987 at the St. Petersburg Times, where she covered the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and was one of the only women covering the NFL at that time. From there she went to the Detroit Free Press, where she spent seven years before returning home to the Miami Herald in 1996. Her many accolades include the Associated Press Sports Editors Top 10 Enterprise/Project Reporting (2021), National Headliner Award (second place 2007, third place 1999), Florida Sportswriter of the Year (2015), Associated Press Sports Editors (third place 2008, fourth place 1987, fifth place 1994, Top 10 2000 and 2001), Michigan AP awards (first place 1994), and the Florida Sports Writers Association (second place 1988 and third place 1998). A Miami native and graduate of the University of Miami, Kaufman has been teaching a sports reporting class at UM for 17 years. Her work was published in A Kind of Grace: A Treasury of Sportswriting by Women; Real Sports Reporting, a sports journalism textbook; and Nike is a Goddess: History of Women's Sports.

Lenny Kaye is an American guitarist, composer, record producer, and writer, and a founding member of Patti Smith and Her Band. In 2011, he was awarded the honor of Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by le Ministre de la Culture et de la Communication of France. Rock and roll was born in basements and garages, radio stations, and dance halls in cities where unexpected gatherings of artists and audiences changed and charged the way music was heard and celebrated. In Lightning Striking: Ten Transformative Moments in Rock and Roll (Ecco), Kaye offers an insider’s take on the evolution and enduring legacy of the music that rocked the 20th century. It’s a guided tour inside style and performance to see who’s on stage, along with the movers and shakers, the hustlers and hangers-on. He explores 10 crossroads of time and place that define the genre. Whether describing Elvis Presley’s Memphis, The Beatles’ Liverpool, Smith’s New York, or Kurt Cobain’s Seattle, Lightning Striking – informed by Kaye’s knowledge and experience – reveals the communal energy that creates a scene. Sweeping and detailed, it’s an ear-opening insight into our shared musical and cultural history.

Ben Kesling writes for The Wall Street Journal, focusing on domestic security and issues faced by veterans. He has a master’s in divinity from Harvard Divinity School, attended the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, and previously served as a Marine Corps officer in Iraq and Afghanistan. In Bravo Company: An Afghanistan Deployment and Its Aftermath (Abrams Press), Kesling tells the story of the war in Afghanistan through the eyes of a unit of men that’s part of the parachute infantry regiment of the 82nd Airborne Division. Bravo Company follows them from their initial enlistment and training through deployment a decade ago and what has happened since as they returned to combat in other units or moved on with their lives as civilians – or tried to. By the time Bravo Company made it home, three soldiers had been killed in action, a dozen more had lost limbs, and an astonishing half of the company had Purple Hearts. Since then two more died by suicide, more than a dozen have tried to end their own lives, and others admit they’ve considered it. Bravo Company is a powerful and insightful account of a war that didn’t end for these soldiers just because they came home.

The son of Palestinian immigrants, Khaled Mohamed Khaled, professionally known as DJ Khaled, is a former radio personality (at Miami's WEDR 99 Jamz), YouTuber, and all-around music-industry mogul. He has produced dozens of chart-topping records, collaborating with artists such as Beyoncé, Jay Z, Nas, Kanye West, Drake, and Lil Wayne. No overnight success, Khaled wrote about his path to the top in The Keys: A Memoir.

Zain Khalid has written for TV and has been published in The New Yorker, The Believer, the Los Angeles Review of Books, McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, and elsewhere. Brother Alive (Grove Press) is his first novel. In 1990, three boys unrelated but intertwined by circumstance – Dayo, Iseul, and Youssef – are adopted as infants and share a bedroom atop a mosque in Staten Island, New York. They are inseparable, and conspicuous: Dayo is of Nigerian origin, Iseul is Korean, and Youssef is indeterminately Middle Eastern. Youssef shares everything with his brothers, except for one secret: he sees a hallucinatory double, an imaginary friend he calls Brother. Brother persists as a companion into Youssef’s adult life, supporting him but also shaking his grip on the world. The boys’ adoptive father, Imam Salim, has secrets, too, including the cause of his failing health and what happened to the boys’ biological parents. When the Imam returns to Saudi Arabia, the brothers, now adults, will be forced to follow. They find an opulent, almost futuristic world. Should they change who they are to survive or defend their deeply held beliefs?

Erin Kimmerle, Ph.D., is an associate professor of anthropology at the University of South Florida, and executive director of the Florida Institute of Forensic Anthropology and Applied Science at USF. In We Carry Their Bones: The Search for Justice at the Dozier School for Boys (William Morrow), she presents a searing and heartbreaking account of the Arthur G. Dozier Boys School. A well-guarded secret in Florida – until reports of cruelty, abuse, and “mysterious” deaths could no longer be squelched – the institution was shut down in 2011. Established in 1900, the juvenile reform school accepted children as young as 6 for crimes as harmless as truancy or trespassing. The boys sent there were subject to brutal abuse, routinely hired out to local farmers by school management as indentured labor, and died either at the school or in attempting to escape its brutal conditions. After Dozier closed, Kimmerle stepped in to locate the school’s graveyard and determine who and how many were buried there. The school’s accounting suggested there were 31 boys in unmarked graves; the actual number was at least twice that. In spite of residents and local law enforcement threatening and harassing Kimmerle and her team on their task, what’s emerged from their work is an indictment of the reform school system – and a reckoning with racism and shame in the legacy of America.

James Kirchick has written about human rights, politics, and culture from around the world. A columnist for Tablet magazine, a writer at large for Air Mail, and a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, he is the author of The End of Europe: Dictators, Demagogues, and the Coming Dark Age. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, and other publications. For decades, the specter of homosexuality haunted Washington. The mere suggestion that someone might be gay destroyed reputations, ended careers, and ruined lives. At the height of the Cold War, fear of homosexuality became intertwined with the threat of communism, leading to a purge of gay men and lesbians from the federal government. Utilizing declassified documents, interviews with more than 100 people, and material unearthed from presidential libraries and archives around the country, Kirchick’s Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington (Henry Holt & Co.) is a chronicle of American politics like no other. Cultural and political anxiety over gay people impacted everything from the rivalry between the CIA and the FBI to the ascent of Joseph McCarthy, the struggle for civil rights, and the rise of the conservative movement.

Kathie Klarreich founded the Miami-based prison writing nonprofit Exchange for Change in 2014, after a 24-year career as a journalist, half of which was spent in Haiti reporting for print, radio and television, including Time, The New York Times, ABC, and NPR. She is the author of Madame Dread: A Tale of Love Voudou and Civil Strife in Haiti and a contributor to two anthologies: So Spoke the Earth and Women, Writing, and Prison. Klarreich started facilitating writing workshops in the correctional system in 2009 and began the writing exchanges with academic institutions in 2013. Don’t Shake the Spoon: A Journal of Prison Writing, is a curriculum and resource guide for facilitating Exchange for Change programs in communities.

Phil Klay is a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps and the author of Redeployment, which won the 2014 National Book Award for fiction, and Missionaries, which was named one of the Ten Best Books of 2020 by The Wall Street Journal. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, and elsewhere. In Uncertain Ground: Citizenship in an Age of Endless, Invisible War (Penguin Press), Klay, who served as an officer in Iraq, notes that American identity has always been bound up in war – from the Revolutionary War of our founding and the Civil War that ended slavery, to the two world wars that launched America as a superpower. But unlike during previous eras of war, few Americans have had to grapple with the endless, invisible conflicts of the post-9/11 world; in fact, increasingly few people are even aware they are still going on. But while American military actions abroad may be out of sight and out of mind, the consequences are real. In the name of what, exactly, do we ask young Americans to kill and to die? In the name of what does this country hang together?

Jamil Jan Kochai is the author of 99 Nights in Logar, a finalist for the Pen/Hemingway Award for debut novel, and the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. He was born in an Afghan refugee camp in Peshawar, Pakistan, but he originally hails from Logar, Afghanistan. His short stories and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Ploughshares, and The O. Henry Prize Stories 2018. In The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories (Viking), Kochai ​breathes life into his contemporary Afghan characters, moving between modern-day Afghanistan and the Afghan diaspora in America. In “Playing Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain,” a young man’s video game experience turns into a surreal exploration of his father’s memories of war and occupation. Set in Kabul, “Return to Sender” follows two married doctors driven by guilt to leave the U.S. and care for their fellow Afghans. And in the title story we learn of a man codenamed Hajji, from the perspective of a government surveillance worker who becomes entrenched in the immigrant’s family life. The collection offers a moving exploration of characters grappling with the ghosts of war and displacement.

Charles Kochman is the editorial director of Abrams ComicArts and editor of the #1 bestselling series Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney. He has edited several hundred books for all age groups, including picture books; middle-grade novels; retrospectives on Rube Goldberg, Charles M. Schulz, Maurice Sendak, and William Steig; definitive monographs; collections with George Booth, Robert Crumb, and Art Spiegelman; and graphic novels including the widely acclaimed Mom’s Cancer by writer and cartoonist Brian Fies.

Karen Koffler, M.D., received her medical degree at the University of Miami and trained in internal medicine at the University of Colorado. She began her career as an ER doctor in a variety of settings, including Indian reservations, the Veterans Administration, and inner-city hospitals, and later helped develop the first “hospitalist” program for Kaiser Permanente in Denver. Along the way she realized that “health care” operated more as a disease management system, and became increasingly disconcerted with the often inadequate approach of medications and surgery to treat diseases already in their later stages. Questioning the status quo led her to being accepted into the first class of physicians trained by Dr. Andrew Weil – the father of integrative medicine – at the University of Arizona. While there she expanded her conventional training to include nutrition, herbs, supplements, mind-body therapies, spirituality, Chinese medicine and acupuncture, and other alternative approaches. Upon completion, she was recruited to Northwestern Medical Center in Chicago to design and run an integrative medical center. In 2006, she joined Canyon Ranch to direct its new health and wellness center at Canyon Ranch Miami Beach. Koffler was able to see repeatedly that chronic health issues could be reversed through changes in nutrition, appropriate exercise, supplements, improved quality of sleep, and skills to handle stress. In her current position, she leads the development of the Osher Center for Integrative Health at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. Through her work, including clinical, research, and education, her goal is to help transform health care in the U.S. to include a focus on prevention, optimizing the health of patients, and expanding the paradigm in treating illness to include alternative practices. In her personal life, Koffler is committed to what she teaches: Mornings start with a meditation and a beach workout. She eats a mostly plant-based diet, always has coffee, and indulges in the occasional dessert.

Laura Krantz is a print and audio journalist whose critically acclaimed podcast Wild Thing explores the intersection between science and society. She spent 10 years as an editor and producer with NPR in Washington, D.C., and KPCC in Los Angeles, and her work has appeared in Smithsonian, Outside, and Popular Science. When Krantz discovered that her long-lost cousin, Grover Krantz, a distinguished anthropologist and professor at Washington State University, had devoted much of his career to the search for Bigfoot, she couldn’t quite believe it. A natural skeptic and a firm believer in facts, she decided to conduct her own quest. The Search for Sasquatch (Abrams Books for Young Readers) takes readers through the big guy’s fun, fascinating, and complex world. Could Bigfoot really be out there? Krantz explores a gray area between myth and science, taking readers on a strange, surreal, and surprising hunt, encouraging us to challenge our gut assumptions, open our minds to new possibilities, think critically, and use the scientific method along the way. Bigfoot might be important – even if we don’t find him – and Krantz asks that we evaluate the evidence she presents to make up our own minds.

Maris Kreizman is the books editor at Vulture and the host of Literary Hub’s The Maris Review, and is writing a memoir in essays called I Want To Burn This Place Down (Ecco). She’ll be at Miami Book Fair 2022 to interview Rivka Galchen, author of Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch: A Novel (Picador).

Priyanka Kumar’s essays and criticism appear in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Review of Books, on HuffPost, and other publications. Kumar also wrote, directed, and produced the feature documentary The Song of the Little Road, starring Martin Scorsese and Ravi Shankar. She opens Conversations with Birds (Milkweed Editions) with a simple but defining declaration: “Birds are my almanac. They tune me into the seasons, and into myself.” Growing up in northern India, Kumar took her immersion in nature for granted. But after moving to North America as a teenager, she became increasingly distanced from the natural world. But in her twenties, while living in Los Angeles and working on films, she began to rediscover her place in the landscape by watching birds. Tracing her movements across the American West, this collection of essays brings the avian world to life. She is not just a list keeper, counting and cataloging species – she writes about the mango-colored western tanager that rescues her from a bout of altitude sickness and the ancient sandhill cranes in the Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, and in her stories, they “become a portal to a more vivid, enchanted world.”

A New York Times bestselling and James Beard Award-winning author, Mark Kurlansky is a recipient of a Bon Appétit American Food and Entertaining Award for Food Writer of the Year, and a Glenfiddich Food and Drink Award for food book of the year. He is presenting two very different titles at Miami Book Fair 2022. In The Importance of Not Being Ernest: My Life with the Uninvited Hemingway (Books & Books), Kurlansky focuses on the sprawling life and work of Ernest Hemingway while drawing parallels to his own. In this memoir-cum-biography, he offers an in-depth analysis of the places and people in Hemingway’s life. In Big Lies: From Socrates to Social Media (Tilbury House Publishers), Kurlansky shifts his attention to young readers with a book that alights on the great injustices of the Middle Ages, the big lies of Stalin and Hitler and their terrible consequences, and the reckless lies of contemporary demagogues, which are amplified through social media. The modern age has provided ever-more-effective ways of spreading lies, but it has also given us the scientific method, which is the most effective tool for finding what is true.

Writer, ornithologist, educator, and conservationist James A. Kushlan is a research associate at the Smithsonian Institution; director of Patuxent Wildlife Research Center; professor of biology at the University of Mississippi and Texas A&M, Commerce; and wildlife biologist with the U.S. National Park Service. He has published 10 books, most recently Seeking the American Tropics: South Florida’s Early Naturalists. For Everglades National Park (Images of America) (Arcadia Pub (Sc)), a celebration of the 75th anniversary of the dedication of the park, Kushlan collaborated with author and wildlife photographer Kirsten Hines to celebrate this vast and mysterious place, inaccessible for centuries. The courtship plumes of the egrets decorating ladies’ hats jump-started the movement to save the wetlands; today much of this landscape is indeed now protected within Everglades National Park. Dedicated in 1947, it receives nearly a million visitors every year. They come to experience its alligators, crocodiles, Florida panthers, anhingas, roseate spoonbills, and egrets – and also hear the stories of the indigenous Tequesta, Spanish and British colonialists, pioneer settlers, Mikasuki-speaking Native Americans – and the soldiers who sought to expel them.

Ryan La Sala writes about surreal things happening to queer people. He is the author of Reverie and Be Dazzled and lives in New York City. He has been featured in Entertainment Weekly and on NPR and Tor.com. The Honeys (PUSH) is a twisted and tantalizing horror novel set amidst the pastoral splendor of a secluded summer retreat. Mars has always been the lesser twin, the shadow of his sister Caroline’s radiance. But when Caroline dies under horrific circumstances, Mars is compelled to learn all he can about his once-inseparable sister, who’d grown so distant. Mars’ gender fluidity has marginalized him in his politically connected family, which often has excluded him from their traditions and expectations. But he insists on attending the prestigious Aspen Conservancy Summer Academy, a place Caroline loved. After all, this is where she spent so much of her time. But the rural fairy tale is not for him. Folksy charm and sun-drenched festivities camouflage old-fashioned gender roles and a toxic preparatory rigor. Mars seeks out his sister’s friends: a group of girls dubbed the Honeys, named for the beehives they maintain behind their cabin. They are beautiful and terrifying – and Mars is certain they’re connected to Caroline’s death.

Kien Lam is a poet and Kundiman fellow whose work has appeared or is forthcoming in American Poetry Review, The Rumpus, The Nation, and other publications. He currently lives in Los Angeles, where he writes about e-sports. Extinction Theory (University of Georgia Press) is a collection of pseudoscience poems – and as much about language as it is about the absence of language – with which Lam tries to provide rationales for some of life’s most salient mysteries. Where is God? What does it mean to belong? Who killed the dinosaurs? Lam creates new worlds with new rules to better answer these perennial questions. His poetry is that of discovery, of looking at the world as if for the first time. He exposes the transitory and transcendent nature of things and how we find meaning. At the heart of this collection, there is also a catalog of smaller “extinctions.” Every passing moment is the death of something, and try as we might to recreate the feeling, it can never be the same. Maybe it’s a relationship, maybe it’s a doughnut.

Daniela Lamas, M.D., is a pulmonary and critical care doctor at the Brigham & Women’s Hospital and faculty at Harvard Medical School. She has worked as a medical reporter at the Miami Herald and is frequently published in The New York Times. In her first book, You Can Stop Humming Now: A Doctor’s Stories of Life, Death, and in Between (Little, Brown Spark), Lamas writes about what life is like for patients kept alive by modern medical technology. As a critical care doctor treating people at their sickest, she questions what comes after for those whose lives are extended by treatments and technologies. She explores the complex answers through personal accounts of patients and their families.

Ann Leary is a New York Times bestselling author of a memoir and four novels, including The Good House, and her work has been translated into 18 languages. She has written for The New York Times, Ploughshares, NPR, Redbook, and Real Simple, among other publications. Her essay, “Rallying to Keep the Game Alive,” was adapted for Prime Video’s TV series, Modern Love. Inspired by a true story about Leary’s grandmother, The Foundling: A Novel (Scribner/Marysue Rucci Books) is her first historical novel. It offers a rare look at a shocking chapter of America’s recent past. It’s 1927, and 18-year-old Mary Engle joins as a secretary at one of the largest and most self-sufficient public asylums for women in the country: the Nettleton State Village for Feebleminded Women of Childbearing Age. She’s in awe of her employer, the brilliant, genteel psychiatrist Dr. Agnes Vogel. But then Mary learns that a girl from her childhood orphanage is one of the inmates. She was a free spirit; could she be mentally disabled? Then Lillian begs Mary to help her escape, alleging the asylum is not what it seems. Mary’s decision triggers a hair-raising sequence of events with life-altering consequences.

Sanaë Lemoine is a writer and a 2022 National Endowment for the Arts creative writing fellow. Born in Paris to a Japanese mother and French father, she grew up in France and Australia. The Margot Affair: A Novel (Hogarth) is her first book. Margot Louve has lived her whole life as a secret. The hidden daughter of a long-standing affair, she exists with her mother in the shadows, living in a small Parisian apartment on the Left Bank. But Margot longs to be seen and heard, and in the summer of her 17th birthday, she meets a well-regarded journalist who will set her plan in motion. Margot is drawn into an adult world she struggles to comprehend, and she learns how one impulsive decision can shatter the lives of those around her in ways she could never have imagined. Exposing the seams between private lives and public faces, The Margot Affair is an exploration of desire, transgression, and the dangers of speaking the truth.