Sandra Newman is the author of the novels The

Only Good Thing Anyone Has Ever Done

(HarperCollins US, Chatto & Windus UK) and

Cake (Chatto & Windus UK). The Only Good

Thing Anyone Has Ever Done was a finalist for

the Guardian First Book Award. She is also

the co-author, with Howard Mittelmark, of the

satire/how-to book How Not to Write a Novel

(HarperCollins), forthcoming in May 2008. Her

memoir, Folk Tales of the Rich, will be published

by Chatto & Windus in the spring of 2009. She

has also written various works of short fiction

and non-fiction, which have been published

in Granta, Conjunctions, the New York Tyrant,

Salmagundi, etc.

    She was born in Massachusetts, and moved

to the UK at the age of 18. She has recently

returned to the US, and lives in New York City..