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, Jack, the 2013 Women's Prize for Fiction winning, May We Be Forgiven, and two collections of short stories,Things You Should Know and The Safety of Objects and the highly acclaimed memoir, The Mistress's Daughter, as well as the travel memoir, Los Angeles: People, Places and the Castle on the Hill. She is a contributing editor to Vanity Fair and writes frequently on arts and culture for numerous magazines and newspapers. She lives in New York City.