Joshua Cohen was born in 1980 in Atlantic City. His books include the novels Moving Kings, Book of Numbers, Witz, A Heaven of Others and Cadenza for the Schneidermann Violin Concerto; the short fiction collection Four New Messages; and the non-fiction collection Attention. Called ‘a major American writer’ by the New York Times, ‘maybe America’s greatest living writer’ by the Washington Post, and ‘an extraordinary prose stylist, surely one of the most prodigious at work in American fiction today’ by the New Yorker, Cohen was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Netanyahus. He lives in New York City.