Dan Chaon is the acclaimed author of "Among the Missing", which was a finalist for the National Book Award. He is also the author of "You Remind Me of Me", which was named one of the best books of the year by the" Washington Post", " Chicago Tribune", " San" "Francisco Chronicle", " Christian Science Monito""r", and Entertainment Weekly", among other publications. He has been a finalist for the National Magazine Award in Fiction and was the recipient of the 2006 Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Chaon lives in Cleveland, Ohio, and teaches at Oberlin College, where he is the Pauline M. Delaney Professor of Creative Writing.