A. M. Homes is the author of several novels including Music for Torching, The Endof Alice,Jack and most recently, ThisBookWill Save Your Life, and two collections of highly-acclaimed short stories, Things You Should Know and The Safety of Objects, all published by Granta Books. She is the recipient of numerous awards including a Guggenheim and NEA fellowship. She is a contributing editor to Vanity Fair and has published fiction and essays in the New Yorker,Granta,Harper’s,McSweeney’s,Artforumand the New York Times. She lives in New York City.