About the Author

Lamar Herrin is the author of seven novels (The Lies Boys Tell, House of the Deaf, and Fractures, among others), a memoir, Romancing Spain, and numerous stories (in The New Yorker, Harper's, The Paris Review and Epoch). He has won a NEA fellowship, an AWP Award for the Novel, and the Paris Review's Aga Kahn award for fiction. He is a professor emeritus from Cornell University and with his wife Amparo Ferri divides his time between Ithaca, New York and Valencia, Spain.