JOHN BURNHAM SCHWARTZ is the bestselling author of six novels, including The Red Daughter: A Novel, The Commoner: A Novel, and Reservation Road: A Novel, which was made into a film based on his screenplay. His books have been translated into 20 languages, and he has done extensive screen and television writing for all major Hollywood studios, including as the screenwriter of HBO Films’ The Wizard of Lies starring Robert De Niro and Michelle Pfeiffer, for which he was nominated for a 2018 Writers Guild of America Award for Outstanding Writing. The longtime literary director of the Sun Valley Writers’ Conference, he is also editor-at-large at renowned publisher Penguin Press. He lives in New York City with his wife, writer Aleksandra Crapanzano, and their son, Garrick.