Christine Schutt is the author of a short-story collection, Nightwork, chosen by poet John Ashbery as the best book of 1996 for the Times Literary Supplement. Her first Novel, Florida, was a National Book Award Finalist for fiction in 2004. She is also the author of the story collection A Night, A Day, Another Night, Summer. Her new novel, All Souls, is out now from Harcourt.