The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

SIRI HUSTVEDT was born in 1955 in Northfield, Minnesota. She moved to New York City in 1978 and earned her Ph.D. in English literature at Columbia University in 1986. She is the author of four novels, The Sorrows of an American, What I Loved, The Enchantment of Lily Dahl, The Blindfold, as well as two collections of essays, A Plea for Eros and Mysteries of the Rectangle. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband, Paul Auster.