John Wray is the author of "The Lost Time Accidents," "Lowboy," "Canaan's Tongue," "The Right Hand of Sleep," and most recently, "Godsend." The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Award, a Cullman Fellowship from the New York Public Library, and a Mary Ellen von der Heyden Fellowship from the American Academy in Berlin, he was named one of Granta's Best Young American Novelists in 2007. A citizen of the United States and Austria, he currently lives in Mexico City.