![]() Award, a Washington State Book Award, and a Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award, and helped me secure a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. My third novel, Set This House in Order, marked a critical turning point in my career after it won the James Tiptree, Jr. Through a combination of timely foreign rights sales, the generous support of family and friends, occasional grant money, and a slowly accumulating backlist, I've managed to make novel-writing my primary occupation ever since. My professor Alison Lurie helped me find an agent, and within six months of my college graduation Fool on the Hill had been sold to Atlantic Monthly Press. ![]() ![]() At Cornell University I wrote what would become my first published novel, Fool on the Hill, as my senior thesis in Honors English. I decided I wanted to be a fiction writer when I was five years old and spent my childhood and adolescence learning how to tell stories. ![]() BIO: I was born in New York City in 1965. ![]()
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