Dana Spiotta

Dana Spiotta (born 1966) is an American author. She was a recipient of the Rome Prize in Literature, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the [https://www.artsandletters.org/awards John Updike Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters], and a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship.

She is the author of five novels. ''Innocents and Others'' (2016) won the St. Francis College Literary Prize. ''Stone Arabia'' (2011) was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. ''Eat the Document'' (2006) was a National Book Award finalist and won the Rosenthal Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. ''Lightning Field'' (2001) was a New York Times Notable Book of the year.

In 2021, Spiotta published ''Wayward,'' which concerns four women: Sam Raymond, a perimenopausal woman; Ally Raymond, Sam's daughter; Lily, Sam's mother; and Clara Loomis, a fictitious 19th Century suffragette who ran away to the Oneida Community as a young woman. ''Wayward'' was a ''New York Times'' Critics' Top Pick of 2021 and a ''New York Times'' Notable Book of the Year. Provided by Wikipedia