Paul LaFarge is the author of the acclaimed novels “The Artist of the Missing” and “Haussmann, or the Distinction,” a 2001 New York Times Notable Book.
His translation of Paul Poissel’s “The Facts of Winter” was published by McSweeney’s Books, and he wrote the introduction for the New York Review of Books’ reissue of Blake Cendrars’ “Moravigne.”
His stories have appeared in Conjunctions, Fence, STORY, McSweeney’s and elsewhere; and his essays have been published in the Village Voice, The Believer and Salon.com.
He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2002 and the Bard Fiction Prize in 2005. He lives in Brooklyn.