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.