About the Author

Adam Ross is the acclaimed author of Mr. Peanut and the new Playworld, a big-hearted novel capturing a transformative year in the life of a child actor coming of age in a nostalgic Manhattan. Ross’s work has been recognized by The New York Times, The New Yorker, and The Economist as among the best of the year. A fellow at the American Academy in Berlin and Princeton’s Hodder Fellow for Fiction, Ross is also editor of The Sewanee Review.