JOHN BURNHAM SCHWARTZ is the author of five acclaimed novels, including The Commoner, Northwest Corner, and Reservation Road, which was made into a film based on his screenplay. His books have been translated into twenty languages, and he has done extensive screen and television writing, including as screenwriter of HBO Films’ The Wizard of Lies, starring Robert De Niro and Michelle Pfeiffer, for which he was nominated for a 2018 Writers Guild of America Award for Outstanding Writing. He is literary director of the Sun Valley Writers’ Conference and lives in Brooklyn with his wife, writer Aleksandra Crapanzano, and their son, Garrick.