Sam Suss­man is the author of Boy from the North Coun­try, a final­ist for the Nation­al Jew­ish Book Award in Fic­tion and USA Today Best­seller, reviewed by Kirkus as ​“the most beau­ti­ful moth­er-son sto­ry in recent mem­o­ry.” Suss­man wrote the Harper’s mem­oir, The Silent Type: On (Pos­si­bly) Being Bob Dylan’s Son. Orig­i­nal­ly from the Hud­son Val­ley, he has lived in Jerusalem and Berlin and holds a B.A. from Swarth­more and an M.Phil from Oxford.