MARGOT LIVESEY
is the
New York Times bestselling author of the novels
The Flight of Gemma Hardy,
The House on Fortune Street,
Banishing Verona,
Eva Moves the Furniture,
The Missing World,
Criminals, and
Homework. Her work has appeared in the
New Yorker,
Vogue, and the
Atlantic, and she is the recipient of grants from both the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation.
The House on Fortune Street won the 2009 L. L. Winship/PEN New England Award. Born in Scotland, Livesey currently lives in the Boston area and is a professor of fiction at the Iowa Writers' Workshop.