THREE AUTHORS ON FRACTURED FAMILIES

ALLEGRA GOODMAN’s novels include Sam: A Novel (The Dial Press); The Chalk Artist: A Novel, winner of the Massachusetts Book Award; Intuition; The Cookbook Collector: A Novel; Paradise Park: A Novel; and Kaaterskill Falls: A Novel, a National Book Award finalist. Her fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Commentary, and Ploughshares, and has been anthologized in The O. Henry Awards and Best American Short Stories. She has written two story collections, The Family Markowitz: Fiction and Total Immersion: Stories, as well as a book for younger readers, The Other Side of the Island: A Novel. Her essays and reviews have appeared in The New York Times Book Review, The Wall Street Journal, The New Republic, The Washington Post, the Boston Globe, and The American Scholar. Raised in Honolulu, Hawaii, Goodman studied English and philosophy at Harvard and received a Ph.D. in English literature from Stanford. She is the recipient of a Whiting Award, the Salon Award for Fiction, and a fellowship from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.

JESS ROW is the author of the novel Your Face in Mine: A Novel, the essay collection White Flights: Race, Fiction, and the American Imagination, and The Train to Lo Wu: Stories and Nobody Ever Gets Lost: Stories. He’s received a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Whiting Award, and his writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Granta, and many other publications. Row teaches at New York University and lives in New York and Plainfield, Vermont.

THRITY UMRIGAR is the bestselling author of nine previous books, which include Honor: A Novel, a Reese's Book Club Pick, as well as a memoir and three picture books. Her work has been published in more than 15 countries and in several languages. A former journalist, she has contributed to The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The New York Times, Cleveland's Plain Dealer, and other newspapers. She is a recipient of the Nieman Fellowship to Harvard University, and the winner of a Cleveland Arts Prize, the Seth Rosenberg Prize, and a Lambda Literary Award. She is currently a distinguished university professor of English at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland.