B. A. Shapiro is the best­selling author of The Col­lec­tor’s Appren­tice, The Mural­ist, and The Art Forg­er, which won the New Eng­land Book Award for Fic­tion and the Boston Authors Soci­ety Award for Fic­tion, among oth­er hon­ors. Her books have been select­ed as com­mu­ni­ty reads in numer­ous cities and trans­lat­ed through­out the world. Before becom­ing a nov­el­ist, she taught soci­ol­o­gy at Tufts Uni­ver­si­ty and cre­ative writ­ing at North­east­ern Uni­ver­si­ty. She and her hus­band, Dan, divide their time between Boston and Florida.