Jim Shepard

Jim Shepard has written eight novels, including The Book of Aron, which won the Sophie Brody Medal for Jewish Literature, the PEN/New England Award for Fiction, and the Clark Fiction Prize, and six story collections, including Like You’d Understand, Anyway, a finalist for the National Book Award and Story Prize winner, and the forthcoming It’d Be Nice If Someone Cared. Seven of his stories have been chosen for the Best American Short Stories, two for the PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories, and two for Pushcart Prizes. For seven years he was a columnist on film for the magazine The Believer, and he’s written screenplays for two films made from his fiction, And Then I Go (2017) and The World to Come (2020). He teaches film and creative writing at Williams College.