Jonathan Dee is the author of seven previous novels, most recently The Locals. His novel The Privileges was a finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize and winner of the 2011 Prix Fitzgerald and the St. Francis College Literary Prize. A former contributing writer, senior editor, and literary critic, he has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. He teaches in the graduate creative writing program at Syracuse University.
