Jennifer Haigh (51 page)

author 's note

For various kinds of help and support, I am grateful to: The MacDowell Colony, the Ucross Foundation, the Eastern Frontier Society, the Bogliasco Foundation, and the Hawthornden International Retreat for Writers Dr. Elizabeth McCauley and Dr. John Brauman Karen Reed Dan Pope and Thomas O'Malley Claire Wachtel, Dorian Karchmar, Jonathan Burnham, and Michael Morrison Dr. Michael Cardone

About the Author

JENNIFER HAIGH is the author of the
New
York Times
bestseller
Baker
Towers
, winner of the 2006 PEN/L. L. Winship Award for outstanding book by a New England author, and
Mrs. Kimble
, which won the PEN/

Hemingway Award for debut fiction and was a finalist for the Book Sense Book of the Year. Both novels were number one Book Sense picks. Her fiction has appeared in
Granta
,
Ploughshares
,
Good
Housekeeping
, and elsewhere. She lives in the Boston area.

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