JOANNA SCOTT

April 19, 2007

Joanna Scott is the author of seven novels, including Liberation, Tourmaline, Make Believe, The Manikin, and Arrogance, and a collection of short fiction, Various Antidotes. Her fiction and essays have appeared in The Paris Review, Harpers, Esquire, Conjunctions, The Southern Review, and other journals. Her books have been finalists for the Pulitzer Prize, the PEN-Faulkner, and the LA Times Book Award. Awards include a MacArthur Fellowship, a Lannan Literary Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Ambassador Book Award from the English-Speaking Union, and the Rosenthal Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She is the Roswell Smith Burrows Professor of English at the University of Rochester. Her new collection of short fiction, Everybody Loves Somebody, was published by Little, Brown in December, 2006.

Introduction

Joanna Scott is the author of eight novels, including Follow Me (published in April, 2009) Liberation, Tourmaline, Make Believe, The Manikin, and Arrogance, and two collections of short fiction, Various Antidotes and Everybody Loves Somebody. Her stories and essays have appeared in many journals, including The Paris Review, Harpers, Esquire, Conjunctions, Black Clock, and Subtropics.. She has reviewed for a variety of journals and newspapers, including, most recently, The New York Times, The Nation, and The Los Angeles Times. Her books have been finalists for the Pulitzer Prize, the PEN-Faulkner, and the LA Times Book Award. Awards include a MacArthur Fellowship, a Lannan Literary Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Ambassador Book Award from the English-Speaking Union, and the Rosenthal Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She is currently the Roswell Smith Burrows Professor of English at the University of Rochester.

Link to Follow Me: www.hachettebookgroup.com/books_9780316051651.htm