Jay Neugeboren is the author of 25 books, including five prize-winning novels (The Stolen Jew, Before My Life Began,1940, Poli: A Mexican Boy in Early Texas, and The American Sun & Wind Moving Picture Company), three prize-winning books of nonfiction (Imagining Robert, Transforming Madness, and Whatever Happened to Frankie King), and four collections of award-winning stories. His stories and essays have appeared in The New York Review of Books, The Atlantic, Ploughshares, The American Scholar, GQ, Hadassah, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal, and have been reprinted in more than 50 anthologies.