Bob Mor­ris is the author of Crispin the Ter­ri­ble and Assist­ed Lov­ing, which received hon­ors from the Amer­i­can Library Asso­ci­a­tion and Lamb­da Lit­er­ary Awards and was a New York Times edi­tor’s choice. A fre­quent con­trib­u­tor to the Times, he has also been a com­men­ta­tor on NPR’s All Things Con­sid­ered and has writ­ten for the The Southamp­ton Review, Elle, The New York­er, Town and Coun­try, and oth­er pub­li­ca­tions. He is a grad­u­ate of Brown Uni­ver­si­ty and has a Mas­ters in Cre­ative Writ­ing from Stony Brook Southamp­ton. He lives with his hus­band, Ira, and their dog, Zoloft, in Man­hat­tan and Bell­port, NY.