Joshua Ferris is the author of three previous novels, Then We Came to the End, The Unnamed and To Rise Again at a Decent Hour , and a collection of stories, The Dinner Party .
He lives in New York..
His short stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Granta, and Best American Short Stories .
To Rise Again at a Decent Hour won the Dylan Thomas Prize and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
He was a finalist for the National Book Award, winner of the Barnes and Noble Discover Award and the PEN/Hemingway Award, and was named one of The New Yorker\'s 20 Under 40 writers in 2010.
Joshua Ferris is the author of three previous novels, Then We Came to the End, The Unnamed and To Rise Again at a Decent Hour , and a collection of stories, The Dinner Party