Teddy Wayne is the author of seven novels; a winner of a Whiting Writers' Award and an NEA Creative Writing Fellowship; and a finalist for the Young Lions Fiction Award, the PEN/ Robert W. Bingham Prize, and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. A frequent contributor to The New Yorker and a former columnist for The New York Times, he has taught at Columbia University and Washington University in St. Louis. He lives in Brooklyn with his family.