Stu­art Nadler is a recip­i­ent of the 5 Under 35 Award from the Nation­al Book Foun­da­tion, and the author of Wise Men, The Insep­a­ra­bles, and The Book of Life. His work has been named a Kirkus Best Book of the Year, a Barnes & Noble Dis­cov­er Great New Writ­ers Selec­tion, and an Ama­zon Book of the Year. He is a grad­u­ate of the Iowa Writ­ers’ Work­shop, where he was a Tru­man Capote Fel­low and a Teach­ing-Writ­ing Fel­low. He is on the fac­ul­ty of the Ben­ning­ton Writ­ing Sem­i­nars. He lives in New England.