Bruce Duffy is the author of the autobiographical novel Last Comes the Egg (1997), and Disaster Was My God (2011), a novel based on the life and work of the poet Arthur Rimbaud. Writing in Salon, Joyce Carol Oates named The World As I Found It as one of “five great nonfiction novels,” calling it “one of the most ambitious first novels ever published.” It was reissued in 2010 as one of the New York Review Books Classics. A former Guggenheim fellow, Duffy has won the Whiting Writers’ Award and a Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Award.

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