Education: B.A., Yale University (1987)
M.A., University of Cambridge (1989)

Interests: Fiction writing

Selected Works:
Kant's Little Prussian Head & Other Reasons Why I Write: An Autobiography in Essays (W.W. Norton, 2020); The Burning Girl (W.W. Norton, 2017); The Woman Upstairs (Knopf, 2013); The Emperor’s Children (Knopf, 2006); The Hunters (Harcourt, 2001); The Last Life (Harcourt, 1999); When The World Was Steady (Granta Books, 1995).