JON MICHAEL VARESE is a graduate of Swarthmore College and the University of California at Santa Cruz, where he wrote his undergraduate and doctoral theses on the development of the British novel in the nineteenth century. He is currently the Director of Public Outreach for The Dickens Project, a multi-campus research consortium at the University of California, and has lectured and written widely on nineteenth-century literature for several outlets, including the Guardian Online, San Francisco Chronicle, Oxford University Press, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. The Spirit Photographer, a story that evolved from his work in nineteenth-century American history, is his first novel.
Learn more at www.jmvarese.com.
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