Amy Waldman

BIOGRAPHY

Amy Waldman is the author of the novels A Door in the Earth (Little, Brown 2019), which was a New York Times Editors' Choice; and The Submission (FSG 2011), which was a national bestseller, a PEN/Hemingway Award finalist, and the #1 Book of the Year for Entertainment Weekly and Esquire. Amy has received fellowships from the American Academy in Berlin, the MacDowell Colony, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She was previously a reporter for the New York Times, where, as a bureau chief for South Asia, she covered Afghanistan. She lives in Brooklyn.

"What It Means to Look at Paintings of Snow" (T Magazine)

"Freedom": A Short Story (Boston Review)

http://bostonreview.net/freedom-amy-waldman

"Prophetic Justice" (The Atlantic)

The United States is now prosecuting suspected terrorists on the basis of their intentions, not just their actions. But in the case of Islamic extremists, how can American jurors fairly weigh words and beliefs when Muslims themselves can't agree on what they mean?

"Jeanne Gang in the Wild" (The New Yorker)

"The Promise and Tragedy of a Utopian Community, as Seen by One of Its Own" (New York Times Book Review)

"Waldman is that rare novelist who writes from both the head and heart, combining high moral seriousness with moments of irony and humor."

-The Christian Science Monitor