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Jesse Ball

Jesse Ball was born in New York. He is the author of sixteen books, and his works have been translated into more than a dozen languages. He is on the faculty at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, has won the Paris Review's Plimpton Prize for Fiction, and was long-listed for the National Book Award. He was named one of Granta's Best of Young Novelists, and has been a fellow of the NEA, Creative Capital, and the Guggenheim Foundation.