THE AUTHOR

Marisha Pessl grew up in Asheville, North Carolina, and now lives in New York City.

Special Topics in Calamity Physics, her debut novel, was a bestseller in both hardcover and paperback.

It won the 2006 John Sargent Sr. First Novel Prize (now the Center for Fiction’s Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize), and was selected as one of the 10 Best Books of the Year by The New York Times Book Review.

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