Alan Cheuse is the author of the novels The Bohemians (1982), The Grandmother's Club (1986), The Light Possessed (1990), and To Catch the Lightning (2008) plus three collections of short fiction, Candace and Other Stories (1980), The Tennessee Waltz (1991), and Lost and Old Rivers (1998), and a pair of novellas The Fires (2007), as well as the nonfiction work Fall Out of Heaven: An Autobiographical Journey (1987). As a book commentator, Cheuse is a regular contributor to National Public Radio's "All Things Considered." A Trance After Breakfast, his collected travel essays, appeared last summer. His new novel, Song of Slaves in the Desert, will come out in the spring of 2011.
