Mary Gaitskill is the author of the novels, Veronica (2005), Two Girls, Fat and Thin (1991) and the collections, Bad Behavior (1988) andBecause They Wanted To, which was nominated for the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1998 . Her stories and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, Esquire, The Best American Short Stories(1993), and The O. Henry Prize Stories (1998). Her story Secretary was the basis for the film of the same name. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, she teaches creative writing at Syracuse University. She lives in New York. “….Gaitskill is reaching further into her preoccupations than ever before, and the novel is full of very real pleasures. Her prose has a perfumed clarity. She tacks against the upright dichotomies of our historical moment – dichotomies that shape how we think and who we are but are often more contingent than we know. In Veronica, as ever, Gaitskill’s brand of brainy lyricism, of acid shot through with grace, is unlike anyone else’s. And it constitutes some of the most incisive fiction writing around.” – The New York Times Sunday Book Review – Meghan O’Rourke.
