Hernan Diaz is the Pulitzer PrizeтАУwinning and New York Times best┬нselling author of Trust. His first novel, In the Distance, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, won the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing, was translated into more than twenty languages, and was one of Publishers WeeklyтАЩs Top 10 books of the year and Literary HubтАЩs twenty best novels of the decade. Trust was translated into more than thirty languages, received the Kirkus Prize, was longlisted for the Booker Prize, and was named one of the 10 Best Books of the Year by The New York Times, The Washington Post, NPR, and Time magazine, and it was one of The New YorkerтАЩs 12 Essential Reads of the Year and one of Barack ObamaтАЩs favorite books of the year. His work has appeared in The Paris Review, Granta, The Atlantic, HarperтАЩs Magazine, McSweeneyтАЩs, and elsewhere. He has received the John Updike Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Award, and a fellowship from the New York Public LibraryтАЩs Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers.