The Lesson

About the Author

Jesse Ball is the author of five previous novels, including A Cure for Suicide, Silence Once Begun, and Samedi the Deafness, and several works of verse, bestiaries, and sketchbooks. He was named a finalist for the 2015 New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award and a 2014 Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Ball received an NEA creative writing fellowship for 2014 and the 2008 Paris Review Plimpton Prize for Fiction, and his verse has been included in the Best American Poetry series. He gives classes on general practice in the School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s Master of Fine Arts Writing program.