Jim Shepard

Jim Shepard has written eight novels, including The Book of Aron, which won the Sophie Brody Medal for Jewish Literature, the PEN/New England Award for Fiction, and the Clark Fiction Prize, and six story collections, including Like You’d Understand, Anyway, a finalist for the National Book Award and Story Prize winner, and The Queen of Bad Influences, published this September.   Nine of his stories have been chosen for the "Best American Short Stories," two for the PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories, and three for Pushcart Prizes.