Sigrid Nunez was born in New York City, the daughter of a German mother and a Chinese-Panamanian father, whose lives she drew on for part of her first novel, A Feather on the Breath of God (1995). She went on to write five more novels, including  The Last of Her Kind (2006) and, most recently, Salvation City (2010). She is also the author of Sempre Susan: A Memoir of Susan Sontag (2011). Her honors include a Whiting Writers’ Award, a Rome Prize, a Berlin Prize, and the Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Learn more at www.sigridnunez.com.