Charles D’Ambrosio
Charles D’Ambrosio’s first collection of short stories, The Point and Other Stories (Little Brown, 1995) was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. His recent collection, The Dead Fish Museum (Knopf, 2006), was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award. In 2007 he received a Whiting Award and an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.