A. M. Homes

Homes was born in Washington, D.C. and has long been based in New York City, where she teaches at Princeton; her acclaimed memoir The Mistress's Daughter recounts being contacted, as an adult, by the biological parents who had given her up at birth.

May We Be Forgiven (2012), a sprawling black comedy in which a professor's affair with his brother's wife detonates into a cascade of tragedies that leave him raising his brother's children, won the Women's Prize in 2013, her sixth novel.

Known since her 1989 debut Jack for transgressive, satirical fiction about American suburbia and its private wreckage, she has also written widely for The New Yorker and Vanity Fair, and previously taught at Columbia and NYU.