Let the Great World Spin (55 page)

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A B O U T T H E A U T H O R

C o l u m Mc C a n n is the internationally bestselling author of the novels
Zoli, Dancer, This Side of Brightness,
and
Songdogs,
as well as two critically acclaimed story collections. His fiction has been published in thirty languages. He has been a finalist for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and was the inaugural winner of the Ireland Fund of Monaco Literary Award in Memory of Princess Grace. He has been named one of
Esquire
’s “Best and Brightest,” and his short film
Everything in This Country Must
was nominated for an Oscar in 2005. A contributor to
The New Yorker, The New
York Times Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly,
and
The Paris
Review,
he teaches in the Hunter College MFA Creative Writing Program. He lives in New York City with his wife and their three children.