Marisha Pessl

Marisha Pessl’s bestselling first novel, Special Topics in Calamity Physics, won the 2006 John Sargent Sr. First Novel Prize (now the Center for Fiction’s Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize), and was selected as one of the 10 Best Books of the Year by The New York Times Book Review. She grew up in Asheville, North Carolina, and currently resides in New York City.