Jonathan Wilson is the author of the biography Marc Chagall, two novels, A Palestine Affair and The Hiding Room, two collections of stories, Schoom and An Ambulance is on the Way: Stories of Men in Trouble, and two critical studies of the fiction of Saul Bellow. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, and Best American Short Stories, among other publications, and he is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. He is a professor of English at Tufts University and lives with his family in Newton, Massachusetts.