David Small has previously published three novels. ALMOST FAMOUS was a finalist for the National Book Award, first novel category; THE RIVER IN WINTER was selected by the New York Times as one of its Notable Books of the Year, as was his third book, ALONE. He recently published his fourth and fifth books, MORE OF EVERYTHING: A Love Story and Lie to Me. A Guggenheim Fellow, Small was born in Gardiner, Maine, and raised in New York and Pennsylvania, but his spiritual home has always been his grandparents’ house on Dennison Avenue in Freeport, Maine. He currently lives outside of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, with his wife, Jemry, and a cat named Captain Cloudy.