Dan Hofstadter Author

Dan Hofstadter was educated at Columbia University and the Sorbonne, to which he received a French scholarship. He has contributed to many national journals, including Smithsonian, the Wall Street Journal, and the New Yorker, serving as a contract writer for the latter for eight years. He is the author of five works of nonfiction. The Love Affair as a Work of Art (1996) was nominated for a Book Critics Circle Award; Falling Palace (2005) was nominated for an American PEN Award.