Christine Sneed's story collection Portraits of a Few of the People I've Made Cry won the Grace Paley Prize, Ploughshares' John C. Zacharis Prize and was a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist. Her debut novel Little Known Facts won the Society of Midland Authors award for best adult fiction and was named a top ten debut novel of 2013 by Booklist. She lives in Evanston, Illinois and teaches for the graduate writing programs at Northwestern University and the University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign.
Sneed writes slyly funny, masterful comedies of manners utterly unlike anything else in American letters. -- <b> Joanna Rakoff, author of <i> My Salinger Year </i> and <i> A Fortunate Age </i> </b> A novel about art and artifice that is heartfelt, a novel about love and deception that is clear-eyed, witty and wise. Sneed entertains and tantalizes, in the most Parisian manner * <b>Amy Bloom, author of <i>Lucky Us</i></b> * A wry, sexy, clever little gem of a novel, Christine Sneed’s latest lights up the streets of Paris with elegance and wit * <b>Jami Attenberg, <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>The Middlesteins</i></b> * Art, desire, romance and Paris itself are brought so beautifully together in Christine Sneed’s new novel. She writes with contagious affection for her characters, and in the delightful and delighted hours I spent inside Paris, He Said I had that rare feeling we can get from a novel – I was happy to be alive * <b>Scott Spencer, National Book Award finalist and bestselling author of <i>Endless Love</i></b> * A delicious treat, studded with wise and beautifully observed detail that places side by side those perpetually fascinating antagonists, the eager, casual American and the meticulous, pleasure-driven French * <b>Roselle Brown, <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>Before and After</i></b> * Impressive . . . Hypnotic . . . Hard to put the book down . . . Sneed is such a gifted writer. -- Curtis Sittenfeld, <i>New York Times Book Review</i> (cover), on <i>Little Known Facts</i>