Maggie Shipstead is the New York Times best-selling author of the novels Astonish Me and Seating Arrangements and the winner of the Dylan Thomas Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for First Fiction. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, a former Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford, and the recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.Recommended Reading:

The Signature of Things by Elizabeth Gilbert

Life After Life by Kate Atkinson

Pachinko by Min-Jin Lee

A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki

Veronica by Mary Gaitskill

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