The Cows

About the Author

Lydia Davis, a 2003 MacArthur Fellow, is the author, most recently, of The Collected Stories (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2009). She is also the latest translator of Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust (Viking Penguin, 2002), and Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (Viking Penguin, 2010). She lives in rural upstate New York and teaches at SUNY Albany, where she is also a Fellow of the New York State Writers Institute.