Jim Shepard

Jim Shepard has written eight novels, including The Book of Aron, which won the Sophie Brody Medal for Excellence in Jewish Literature, the Harold Ribalow Award for Jewish Literature, the PEN/New England Award for Fiction, and the Clark Fiction Prize, and most recently Phase Six, published in May of 2021, as well as five story collections, including Like You'd Understand, Anyway, a finalist for the National Book Award and Story Prize winner, and most recently The World to Come.  He's also won the Rea Award for the Short Story, the Library of Congress/ Massachusetts Book Award for Fiction, the ALEX Award from the American Library Association, and a Guggenheim Fellowship.  Seven of his short stories have been chosen for the Best American Short Stories, two for the PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories, and two for a Pushcart Prize.  He's written a book on movies and politics, The Tunnel at the End of the Light, and edited another, Writers at the Movies.  The film And Then I Go, from his screenplay based on his novel Project X, was released in 2017, and The World to Come, based on his short story of the same title, in 2021.  He teaches at Williams College.