David L. Ulin is the author, most recently, of the novel "Thirteen Question Method." His other books include "Sidewalking: Coming to Terms with Los Angeles," shortlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay; "The Lost Art of Reading: Books and Resistance in a Troubled Time"; "The Myth of Solid Ground: Earthquakes, Prediction, and the Fault Line Between Reason and Faith," selected as a best book of the year by the Chicago Tribune and the San Francisco Chronicle; and "Writing Los Angeles: A Literary Anthology," which won a California Book Award. For Library of America, he has edited "Didion: The 1960s and 70s" and "Didion: The 1980s and 90s." Ulin is the books editor of Alta and the former book editor and book critic of the Los Angeles Times. His work has appeared in The Atlantic, The New York Times, Harper's, The Paris Review, and "The Best American Essays 2020." The recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Lannan Foundation, and Ucross Foundation, as well as a COLA Individual Master Artist Grant from the City of Los Angeles, he is a Professor of English at the University of Southern California, where he edits the journal Air/Light.
