A. M. Homes

A. M. Homes was born on December 18, 1961, in Washington, D.C. She was adopted at birth and has written extensively about adoption and identity in both her fiction and memoir. She studied creative writing at Sarah Lawrence College and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She is a professor of creative writing at Princeton University. Homes is known for dark, satirical fiction that unflinchingly examines American family life, suburban malaise, and social dysfunction. Her novels include Jack (1989), In a Country of Mothers (1993), Music for Torching (1999), This Book Will Save Your Life (2006), and May We Be Forgiven (2012), which won the Women's Prize for Fiction and the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award. Her memoir The Mistress's Daughter (2007) explores her experience of finding her biological parents.