Paul Russell is the author of The Salt Point and the Ferro-Grumley Award-winning The Coming Storm. The recipient of many nominations and awards for his writing, he is the author of The Unreal Life of Sergey Nabokov, named by The Washington Post as one of the five most important books of the year. A writing professor at Vassar and the only author to have received the Ferro-Grumley Award twice, he lives in Poughkeepsie, NY.