About the Author

Christopher Sawyer-Lauçanno's books include The Continual Pilgrimage: American Writers in Paris, 1944-1960 and An Invisible Spectator: A Biography of Paul Bowles which was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. He is also a poet and translator, and the long-time Writer-in-Residence at MIT. For E.E. Cummings: A Biography, he had unprecedented access to all of Cummings's papers, many of which had been previously sealed. He lives in Turners Falls, Massachusetts.