About the Authors
Breece D’J Pancake was born in West Virginia in 1952. He attended Marshall University, taught English at Virginia military schools, and then entered the creative writing program at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, where he died in 1979. During his lifetime, his short fiction was published primarily in the Atlantic.
Andre Dubus III is
the author of the highly acclaimed, award-winning memoir Townie, a New York Times
bestseller, and of the #1 New York Times bestseller
House of Sand and Fog. Townie made the list of the best books
of 2011 for Esquire, Salon, Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble,
Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, Kirkus Reviews, Washington
Examiner, and AudioFile. House of Sand and Fog, the basis for an
Academy Award–nominated motion picture, was a fiction finalist for the National
Book Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, a Book Sense Book of the Year,
and an Oprah Book Club selection. His other works include a collection of short
fiction, The Cage Keeper and Other
Stories, and the novels Bluesman
and The Garden of Last Days. His work
has been included in The Best American
Essays of 1994 and The Best Spiritual
Writing of 1999. He has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Pushcart
Prize, the National Magazine Award for fiction, and was a finalist for the Rome
Prize Fellowship from the Academy of Arts and Letters. A member of PEN American
Center, Dubus has served as a panelist for the National Book Foundation and the
National Endowment for the Arts, has taught writing at Harvard, Tufts, and
Emerson College, and is currently a full-time faculty member at the University of
Massachusetts, Lowell. He is married to the performer Fontaine Dollas Dubus. They
live in Massachusetts with their three children.
About Jeremy Arthur
Jeremy Arthur is an audiobook narrator. His readings include Power Foods for the Brain by Dr. Neal Barnard, Thoughtful by S. C. Stephens, Strange Fates by Marlene Perez, and Spring Chicken by Bill Gifford, among others.