Amy Waldman

Black and white portrait of Amy Waldman

Amy Waldman is the author of the novels A Door in the Earth (Little, Brown 2019), which was a New York Times Editors’ Choice; and The Submission (FSG 2011), which was a national bestseller, a PEN/Hemingway Award finalist, and the #1 Book of the Year for Entertainment Weekly and Esquire. Waldman has received fellowships from the American Academy in Berlin, MacDowell, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She was previously a reporter for The New York Times, where, as a bureau chief for South Asia, she covered Afghanistan. She is working on a book of creative non-fiction about our emotional history with snow. [Fiction/Nonfiction]