Michael Frank is the author of What Is Miss­ing, a nov­el, and The Mighty Franks, a mem­oir, which was award­ed the 2018 JQ Wingate Prize and was named one of the best books of the year by The Tele­graph and The New States­man. His essays, arti­cles, and short sto­ries have appeared in The New York Times, Los Ange­les Times, The Atlantic, Slate, The Yale Review, Salma­gun­di, The TLS, Tablet, and oth­er pub­li­ca­tions. The recip­i­ent of a 2020 Guggen­heim Fel­low­ship, he lives with his fam­i­ly in New York City and Camogli, Italy.