Alan Cheuse

Alan Cheuse is author of the novels The Bohemians, The Grandmothers’ Club, The Light Possessed, the award-winning To Catch the Lightning, and Song of Slaves in the Desert, plus several collections of short fiction and novellas. He has also published a memoir titled Fall Out of Heaven: An Autobiographical Journey and A Trance After Breakfast, a collection of travel essays.

As a book commentator, Cheuse is a regular contributor to National Public Radio’s All Things Considered.    His short stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Black Warrior Review, The Idaho Review, Another Chicago Magazine, and elsewhere. The second edition of his introduction to literary study–Literature: Craft & Voice, which he wrote with Nicholas Delbanco, has recently come out from McGraw-Hill. His new collection of short stories–An Authentic Captain Marvel Ring–will be published in the spring of 2014.