Alexander Maksik is the author of You Deserve Nothing, a New York Times bestseller; A Marker to Measure Drift, a New York Times Notable Book; Shelter in Place; and The Long Corner, a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice. Maksik is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Pushcart Prize, and the Sewanee Review’s Andrew Lytle Prize. His books have been translated into a dozen languages.

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