2010 Presenters
A. M. Homes
The recipient of Guggenheim and NEA fellowships, A.M. Homes is the author of the novels, This Book Will Save Your Life, Music For Torching, The End of Alice, In a Country of Mothers, The Mistress's Daughter and Jack, as well as the short-story collections, Things You Should Know and The Safety of Objects, the travel memoir, Los Angeles: People, Places and The Castle on the Hill, and the artist's book Appendix A.
Her work has been translated into eighteen languages and appears frequently in Art Forum, Harper’s, Granta, McSweeney's, The New Yorker, The New York Times, and Zoetrope. She is a Contributing Editor at Vanity Fair.
A writer/producer of the hit television show The L Word, Homes wrote the adaptation of her first novel Jack, for Showtime. The film aired in 2004 and won an Emmy Award for Stockard Channing. Director Rose Troche's film adaptation of The Safety of Objects was released in 2003. This Book Will Save Your Life is currently in development with Stone Village Pictures.
Publisher's biography of Homes
Interview with Homes on The Mistress's Daughter and her own experiences
Homes on writing The Mistress's Daughter in New York Magazine
Critical reviews on The Mistress's Daughter
