Stu­art Nadler is a recip­i­ent of the 5 Under 35 Award from the Nation­al Book Foun­da­tion, and the author of the nov­els Rooms for Van­ish­ing, Wise Men and The Insep­a­ra­bles. He is also the author of a sto­ry col­lec­tion, The Book of Life, which was a final­ist for the Sami Rohr Prize for Jew­ish Lit­er­a­ture. His work has been named a Kirkus Best Book of the Year, a Barnes & Noble Dis­cov­er Great New Writ­ers Selec­tion, and an Ama­zon Book of the Year. He is a grad­u­ate of the Iowa Writ­ers’ Work­shop, where he was a Tru­man Capote Fel­low and a Teach­ing-Writ­ing Fel­low. He is a mem­ber of the fac­ul­ty of the Ben­ning­ton Writ­ing Sem­i­nars. He lives in New England.