About the Author

Joseph O'Neill was born in Ireland and grew up in Mozambique, Iran, and the Netherlands. After working in England as a barrister, he moved to New York, where he lives with his family. His most recent novels, The Dog and Netherland, were longlisted for the Booker Prize. Netherland received the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Kerry Fiction Prize. Joseph O'Neill's short stories appear regularly in the New Yorker, and his nonfiction has been published in the Guardian, the Irish Times, and the New York Review of Books.