BRUCE BAWER served as a board member of the National Book Critics Circle and has reviewed books for The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post Book World, The Wall Street Journal, and The London Review of Books. His essays have appeared in The New Republic, The Nation, The Hudson Review, The New York Times Magazine, and Newsweek. His books include A PLACE AT THE TABLE, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, STEALING JESUS, which Peter J. Gomes called "passionate, articulate, timely, and utterly useful," and DIMINISHING FICTIONS, which led Kirkus to call him "a literary essayist for the ages." He currently lives in Oslo, Norway.
