About the Author

Nathaniel Hutner grew up in Middlebury, Vermont and Princeton, New Jersey. He holds classical diplomas from Exeter and Harvard, and has done graduate work at Göttingen and Oxford. He has also been a dishwasher, a lunch cook, a stableboy and an employee of the Strand Bookstore. For twenty years he worked on Wall Street. He now writes full time and lives in Brooklyn. Note on cover art: A reproduction of a painting by Scot Borofsky's from his series titled Nine Elevan Remembered - an American painter's response to the tragedy.