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ANTHONY DOERR is the author of The Shell Collector, About Grace, and Four Seasons in Rome. Doerr’s short fiction has won three O. Henry Prizes and has been anthologized in Best American Short Stories, The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories, and The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Fiction. Granta named Doerr one of its Best Young American Novelists in 2007. Doerr lives in Boise, Idaho, with his wife and two sons. From 2007 to 2010, he will be the Writer-in-Residence for the State of Idaho.
DAVE EGGERS is the editor of McSweeney’s and the author of four books.
LOUISE ERDRICH is the author of eleven novels, volumes of poetry, children’s books, and a memoir of early motherhood. She lives in Minnesota with her daughters and is the owner of Birchbark Books, a small independent bookstore.
JOSHUA FERRIS grew up in Florida and Illinois. His first novel, Then We Came to the End, was published in 2007. He currently lives in Brooklyn.
JONATHAN FRANZEN is the author of The Twenty-Seventh City, Strong Motion, The Corrections, How to Be Alone, and, most recently, The Discomfort Zone. He lives in New York City and Boulder Creek, California.
ALEXANDRA FULLER lives in Wyoming with her husband and three children. Her most recent book is The Legend of Colton H. Bryant.
DAGOBERTO GILB is the author of the novel, The Flowers, as well as The Magic of Blood, The Last Known Residence of Mickey Acuña, Woodcuts of Women, and Gritos.
MYLA GOLDBERG is the author of the novels Bee Season and Wickett’s Remedy and, most recently, an illustrated children’s book called Catching the Moon. She is almost entirely ignorant of the state capitals, but can recite all fifty states in alphabetical order.
PAUL GREENBERG is the author of the novel Leaving Katya and a frequent contributor to The New York Times Magazine, writing on ocean issues. His forthcoming book on the future of seafood will be published by the Penguin Press.
BARRY HANNAH was born and raised in Mississippi. He is the author of more than a dozen novels and story collections, including Geronimo Rex, Airships and, most recently, Yonder Stands Your Orphan.
CRISTINA HENRíQUEZ is the author of Come Together, Fall Apart, a collection of stories and a novella. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Ploughshares, Glimmer Train, and other journals, and she was featured in the Virginia Quarterly Review as one of “Fiction’s New Luminaries.” She lives in Chicago.
Born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, S. E. HINTON is one of the most popular and best-known writers of young adult fiction. Her first novel, The Outsiders, was published in 1967. Since then she has published That Was Then, This Is Now, Rumble Fish, Tex, and other novels. Her books have been taught in some schools, and banned from others. Hinton lives in Tulsa with her husband David.
JACK HITT is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine, Harper’s and the radio program This American Life. Most recently his work can be found in Best American Travel Writing, Best American Science Writing, and the Oxford American Anthology of Great Music Writing. He is currently at work on a book, Bunch of Amateurs: Searching for the American Character.
JOHN HODGMAN, a Massachusettsean, is the author of The Areas of My Expertise, a book of made-up trivia that led to his current position as Resident Expert on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. His writing has appeared in The Paris Review, McSweeney’s, and The New York Times Magazine. He also portrays a “PC” in a series of television commercials for Macintosh computers. His new book is called More Information Than You Require.
TONY HORWITZ has been a union organizer in rural Mississippi, a staff writer for The New Yorker, and a war correspondent covering conflicts in the Persian Gulf, Sudan, Lebanon, Bosnia, and Northern Ireland. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Journalism in 1995 for a series on working conditions in low-wage America. His books include One for the Road, Baghdad Without a Map, Confederates in the Attic, and, most recently, A Voyage Long and Strange.
HA JIN has published three books of short stories, three volumes of poetry, and five novels. His most recent book is a novel, A Free Life. His work has garnered the National Book Award and two PENFaulkner Awards. He teaches at Boston University and lives outside Boston.
EDWARD P. JONES was born and raised in Washington, D.C. He is the author of two collections of stories, Lost in the City and All Aunt Hagar’s Children, and the novel The Known World.
HEIDI JULAVITS is the author of three novels, most recently The Uses of Enchantment. She is a founding editor of The Believer.
RANDALL KENAN is the author of several books, including A Visitation of Spirits, Walking on Water: Black American Lives at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century, and Let the Dead Bury Their Dead, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. He is an associate professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
BENJAMIN KUNKEL is a founding editor of n + I magazine and author of the novel Indecision.
JHUMPA LAHIRI is the author of Interpreter of Maladies and The Namesake. Her new book, Unaccustomed Earth, was published in the spring of 2008. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
ANDREA LEE was born in Philadelphia. She is a former staff writer for The New Yorker, and the author of Russian Journal, the novels Sarah Phillips and Lost Hearts in Italy, and the short story collection Interesting Women. She lives with her husband and two children in Turin, Italy.
JIM LEWIS is the author of three novels, most recently, The King Is Dead. CRESSIDA LEYSHON is the deputy fiction editor of The New Yorker.
JACKI LYDEN is an award-winning journalist for National Public Radio, serving as host and senior correspondent, who has worked frequently in the Middle East but began in the Middle West. A native of Wisconsin, she is the author of Daughter of the Queen of Sheba, a memoir. Her forthcoming book, Vox Babylonia, chronicles the lives of an intimate circle of Iraqis and their passions across the divide of both wars in Iraq. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, and Silver Spring, Maryland.
LYDIA MILLET is the author of six novels, most recently How the Dead Dream (Counterpoint). Her fifth, Oh Pure and Radiant Heart, was shortlisted for Britain’s Arthur C. Clarke Prize, and an earlier novel, My Happy Life, won the 2003 PEN/USA Award for Fiction. Also an essayist and critic, Millet lives in the desert outside Tucson, Arizona, where she works as a writer and editor at the nonprofit Center for Biological Diversity.
RICK MOODY is the author of four novels, three collections of stories, and a memoir, The Black Veil. His most recent publication is Right Livelihoods: Three Novellas (Little, Brown).
SUSAN ORLEAN was born and raised in Shaker Heights, Ohio. Since then, she has lived in Ann Arbor, Michigan; Portland, Oregon; Boston, Massachusetts; New York, New York; Boston (again); and Pine Plains, New York. She has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1992 and has written five books, including The Orchid Thief and The Bullfighter Checks Her Makeup.
GEORGE PACKER is a staff writer for The New Yorker and the author, most recently, of The Assassins’ Gate: America in Iraq, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. He has published four other books, The Village of Waiting, Blood of the Liberals, The Half Man, and Central Square. His first play, Betrayed, opened in New York in February 2008. He lives in Brooklyn.
ANN PATCHETT is the author of five novels including Bel Canto and Run, and two works of nonfiction, Truth & Beauty and What Now? She lives in Tennessee.
Originally from Omaha, Nebraska, ALEXANDER PAYNE was educated by Jesuits and later studied History and Spanish Literature at Stanford before earning an MFA in Filmmaking from UCLA. His four feature films so far are Citizen Ruth, Election, About Schmidt, and Sideways. He is currently at work on his next film.
JAYNE ANNE PHILLIPSwas born and raised in West Virginia. Her books, including the novel Machine Dreams and the story collection Black Tickets, have been translated and published in twelve foreign languages. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships. She is Professor of English and Director of a new MFA Program at Rutgers-Newark, the State University of New
Jersey.
DAVID RAKOFF is the author of the books Fraud and Don’t Get Too Comfortable. He is a regular contributor to Public Radio International’s This American Life, and his writing has been featured in Best American Non-Required Reading and Best American Travel Writing. He lives in New York.
JOE SACCO is the author of Palestine and Safe Area Gorazde. He is currently working on a book about the Gaza Strip.
SAïD SAYRAFIEZADEH’S essays and stories have appeared in The Paris Review, Granta, Open City, and elsewhere. His memoir about growing up communist in the United States will be published by Dial Press in 2009. He lives in New York.
TARA BRAY SMITHwas born and raised in Hawaii. She is the author of West of Then, a memoir, and is currently at work on a trilogy of young adult sci-fi novels set in Portland, Oregon. She lives in Germany and New York City with her husband, the artist Thomas Struth.
JOHN JEREMIAH SULLIVANwas born in Louisville, Kentucky, and now lives in Wilmington, North Carolina, with his wife and daughter. He was an editor at Harper’s for four years before becoming a correspondent with GQ. His first book is Blood Horses (Farrar Straus & Giroux), and he’s finishing another, about the recovery of a long-lost eighteenth-century utopian manifesto.
CRAIG TAYLOR is the author of Return to Akenfield, an oral history of a rural village in England. His next book, One Million Tiny Plays About Britain (Vol. 1), will be published by Bloomsbury next spring. He lives in London.
SARAH VOWELL is the author of five books, including Assassination Vacation, The Partly Cloudy Patriot, and the forthcoming The Wordy Shipmates.
ELLERY WASHINGTON’S writing has appeared in the French publication Nouvelles Frontières, Out Magazine, The Berkeley Fiction Review and various literary anthologies. Born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, he has spent the past ten years living in Europe, working as a script consultant for international film companies and, for two of those years, teaching at a French public high school. He now resides in Berlin.
WILLIAM T. VOLLMANN is the author of seven novels; three collections of stories; Rising Up and Rising Down, a seven-volume critique of violence; Poor People, an examination of poverty across the globe; and Riding Toward Everywhere, an immersive study of the hobo lifestyle. His most recent novel, Europe Central, won the National Book Award in 2005. Vollmann lives in Sacramento.
About the Editors
MATT WEILAND is the Deputy Editor of The Paris Review. He has been an editor at Granta, The Baffler, and the New Press, and he worked on a documentary radio unit at NPR. His writing has appeared in the New York Times Book Review, the New York Observer, The Nation, and The New Republic. He is the co-editor, with Sean Wilsey, of The Thinking Fan’s Guide to the World Cup and, with Thomas Frank, of Commodify Your Dissent: The Business of Culture in the New Gilded Age. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and son.
SEAN WILSEY is the author of Oh the Glory of It All, a memoir. He is also the co-editor, with Matt Weiland, of The Thinking Fan’s Guide to the World Cup.
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Notes
* What happened to the Wampanoags? In 1676, Massasoit’s son, Metacon, got the crazy idea that the Europeans would eventually kill all the Native Americans. Who knows what goes through people’s minds? In any case, he began to raise an army to prevent this from happening, but he was betrayed. Forced into battle before he was ready, he was swiftly routed, and his people were slaughtered. It is a story that vibrates with tragedy, and that profoundly changed the trajectory of Massachusetts history and, arguably, the history of the whole country. Did you notice I put it in a footnote? That’s our little joke.
* Attention jocks: That means “pleasure taken in someone else’s misfortune.”
† With the one small caveat that it, in fact, does not exist anymore.