Zachary Lazar
<DIV><B>Zachary Lazar</B>'s previous novel, <I>Sway</I> (Little, Brown), was chosen as a Best Book of 2008 by the <I>Los Angeles Times</I>, and his memoir, <I>Evening's Empire: The Story of My Father's Murder</I> (Little, Brown), was named a Best Book of 2009 in the <I>Chicago Tribune</I>. Lazar is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Hodder Fellowship at Princeton University. He lives in New Orleans, where he is on the creative writing faculty at Tulane University.</DIV>