"Lustrous. . . .These stories sparkle with Egan's fresh imagery and precise renderings of mood and place. . . . A writer of tremendous intelligence and grace." --"The Philadelphia Inquirer""Boldly modulated tales of displacement and blazing moments of truth. . . . Riveting, vaguely Hitchcockian. . . . Piercingly tender. . . . Outstanding." --"The New York Times Book Review""Immensely appealing. . . . Told with dazzling insight and emotional daring." --"Elle""[Egan] deftly depicts the ways in which women can create glamorously detailed personas for another based on passing observations." --"Time"

Jennifer Egan was born in Chicago and raised in San Francisco. She attended the University of Pennsylvania and St. John's College, Cambridge.She is the author of three novels, "The Invisible Circus," "Look at Me," which was a finalist for the National Book Award, and "The Keep," as well as a collection of stories, "Emerald City." She has published short fiction in "The New Yorker," "Harper's," "Zoetrope "and "Ploughshares," among others, and her journalism appears frequently in "The New York Times Magazine." She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship, and was recently a fellow at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and sons.