John ReedJohn Reed is the author of ten books, including the novels A Still Small Voice (Delacorte), The Whole (Simon & Schuster/MTV Books), and the SPD bestseller Snowball's Chance (Roof/Melville House); the definitive non-fiction works A Drama In Time: The ew School Century (Profile) and The Never End: The Other Orwell, the Cold War, the CIA, and the Origin of Animal Farm (Palgrave Macmillan); the play All The World's A Grave: A New Play By William Shakespeare (Penguin/Plume); and his highly-praised first collection of sonnets Free Boat: Collected Lies and Love Poems (C&R Press). His essay "My Grandma the Poisoner" was selected for Best American Essays (Houghton Mifflin). His work has also appeared in publications such as Tin House, Artforum, Art in America, the Los Angeles Times, the Paris Review, the Times Literary Supplement, the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Harpers, and Rolling Stone. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University and graduate certificates from Parsons School of Design. He is an Associate Professor and the Director of the MFA in Creative Writing at The New School. Read More Read Less