Jane Hamilton is the author of The Book of Ruth, winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award for first fiction, and A Map of the World, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and named one the top ten books of the year by Entertainment Weekly, Publishers Weekly, the Miami Herald, and People. Both The Book of Ruth and A Map of the World have been selections of Oprah's Book Club. Her following work, The Short History of a Prince, was a Publishers Weekly Best Book of 1998. Hamilton’s novel, Disobedience, was published by Doubleday in 2000 and her latest book, When Madeline Was Young, was published by Random House in 2006. Hamilton lives and writes in an orchard farmhouse in Wisconsin. Please visit her great website: http://www.randomhouse.com/features/janehamilton/