SUSAN ORLEAN, author of Joyride: A Memoir (Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster), has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1992. She has also contributed articles to Vogue, Rolling Stone, Esquire, Outside, and other magazines. She is a New York Times bestselling author of seven books, including The Library Book, Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend, The Bullfighter Checks Her Makeup: My Encounters with Extraordinary People, Saturday Night, and The Orchid Thief, which was made into the Academy Award-winning film Adaptation.
