Nicole Krauss is the author of the international bestseller The History of Love, awarded the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing and Amazon.com Editors' #1 Choice in Literature and Fiction. Her first novel, Man Walks Into a Room, was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Award for First Fiction and was selected as a Los Angeles Times Best Book of 2002. In 2007, she was selected as one of Granta's Best Young American Novelists. Nicole's books have been translated into more than thirty-five languages. She just completed a Cullman Fellowship at the New York Public Library.

Michael Silverblatt is the host of KCRW's half-hour radio show "Bookworm," where he introduces listeners to new and emerging authors along with writers of renown. He created "Bookworm" for KCRW-FM in 1989. The complete Bookworm archive can be heard at kcrw.com/bookworm