Paul Brodeur has been a staff writer at The New Yorker for many years. His short stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Saturday Evening Post, Seventeen, Show, Michigan Quarterly Review, and The Antioch Review. He is the author of a collection of stories, Downstream (Atheneum); two novels, The Sick Fox (Atlantic Monthly Press) and The Stunt Man (Atheneum); and seven books of nonfiction.