With the publication of his first novel, Jonathan Safran Foer became a certified literary wunderkind at the age of 25. The assured and hilarious prose of Everything Is Illuminated tells the story of a young man's search for the woman who saved his grandfather from the Holocaust. Foer's new novel, Extremely Loud and Incredibly, is the story of Oskar, a precocious nine-year-old who is searching for the lock that fits the mysterious key belonging to his father, who died in the attacks on the World Trade Center.

Francine Prose is the author of many highly acclaimed works of fiction, essays, and short stories, including the National Book Award Finalist Blue Angel. Her most recent books are After, a novel for young adults; Sicilian Odyssey, a travel book; and The Lives of the Muses: Nine Women and the Artists They Inspired. Known as a satirist in the tradition of Swift, Prose creates a fictional world of absurd situations and sardonic humor, intelligence, compassion, and grief. A Changed Man is a darkly comic novel that tackles the big existential questions with wit and humanity and illuminates the everyday transactions of our modern lives.