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Author of six novels: Still Life With Monkey (Paul Dry Books, 2018), True Confections (Shaye Areheart, 2010), Triangle (FSG 2006), The Little Women (FSG 2003), The Music Lesson (Crown, 2001), Objects in Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear (Crown, 1995)

Author of story collection and novella: Jane of Hearts and Other Stories (Paul Dry Books, 2022)

Author of family memoir: The Memory of All That: George Gershwin, Kay Swift and My Family's Legacy of Infidelities (Crown, 2011) A play by David Caudle, Duet For Three, in workshops now, was inspired by this book.

2012-2019: Richard L. Thomas Visiting Professor of Creative Writing, Kenyon College;
Editor at Large, KENYON REVIEW

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