Wendy Less­er is an Amer­i­can crit­ic, nov­el­ist, and edi­tor based in Berke­ley, Cal­i­for­nia. She is a mem­ber of the Amer­i­can Acad­e­my of Arts and Sci­ences and the found­ing edi­tor of The Three­pen­ny Review. Wendy has received fel­low­ships from the Guggen­heim Foun­da­tion, Nation­al Endow­ment for the Human­i­ties, the Dedalus Foun­da­tion, and the New York Pub­lic Library’s Cull­man Cen­ter for Schol­ars and Writers.