Lorraine Adams was educated at Princeton University and was a graduate fellow at Columbia University, where she received a master’s degree in literature. She won a Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting and was a staff writer for the Washington Post for eleven years. Adams’s debut novel, Harbor (Knopf, 2004), received the Fourth Annual First Novelist Award from Virginia Commonwealth University. She lives in Washington, D. C., and is at work on her second novel. 

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