Teddy Wayne is the author of three novels, Kapitoil (Harper Perennial), The Love Song of Johnny Valentine (Simon & Schuster), and The Loner (Simon & Schuster, 2016). He is the writer of a monthly column in The New York Times called “Future Tense” and is a regular contributor to The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, and McSweeney’s. He is the winner of the Whiting Writers’ Award, a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship, and has been a finalist for the Young Lions Fiction Award, PEN/Bingham Prize, and Dayton Literary Peace Prize. He has taught at Washington University in St. Louis and Columbia University.

“A powerful and even somewhat touching suspense story about a first-year student who finds himself outclassed in ways neither he, nor the reader, could possibly anticipate.” — Maureen Corrigan, Fresh Air, about Loner

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