William T. Vollmann is the author of ten novels, including Europe Central, which won the National Book Award. He has also written four collections of stories, including The Atlas, which won the PEN Center USA West Award for Fiction, a memoir, and six works of nonfiction, including Rising Up and Rising Down and Imperial, both of which were finalists for the National Book Critics Circle Award. He is the recipient of a Whiting Writers Award and the Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His journalism and fiction have been published in The New Yorker, Harpers, Esquire, Granta, and many other publications.
"""A magnificent new novel from a writer whose books tower over the work of his contemporaries."" - The Washington Post; ""...a monster, a monster of talent, ambition and accomplishment."" - Los Angeles Times; ""Vollman has created a haunting, disturbing and magnificent novel..."" - San Diego Tribune; ""Nothing approaches the wild ambition on display in this book... This is exactly the kind of storytelling that the novel was invented for."" - San Francisco Chronicle"