About the Author

James Howard Kunstler was born in New York City in 1948. His body of work includes non-fiction (The Geography of Nowhere, Home from Nowhere, The Long Emergency and Too Much Magic); his fiction includes World Made by Hand, which was selected as a top-five fiction pick of 2008 by National Public Radio's "All Things Considered," and the second World Made by Hand novel, The Witch of Hebron, as well as ten other novels. A Christmas Orphan joins Manhattan Gothic as the second installment in his Jeff Greenaway series.