The Author

Lisa Michaels is the author of a memoir, Split: A Counterculture Childhood, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Her first novel, Grand Ambition, was named a Los Angeles Times Best Book, one of Booklist's top ten first novels of 2001, and was nominated for a Bay Area Book Reviewers Association award in fiction. She is contributing editor at The Threepenny Review and has written for Salon, Condé Nast Traveler, the Wall Street Journal, and the New York Times Book Review. She lives in Northern California with her husband and twin sons.