Tova Mirvis is the author of the mem­oir The Book of Sep­a­ra­tion as well as four nov­els, We Would Nev­er, Vis­i­ble City, The Out­side World, and The Ladies Aux­il­iary, which was a nation­al best­seller. Her essays have appeared in var­i­ous news­pa­pers, includ­ing The New York Times Book Review, The Boston Globe Mag­a­zine, and Poets and Writ­ers, and her fic­tion has been broad­cast on NPR. She lives in New­ton, Mass­a­chu­setts, with her family.