Bubblegum and Kipling

Tom Mayer is the author of two works of two story collections—Bubble Gum and Kipling and The Weary Falcon, as well as the non-fiction works Mountain Flying and Climb for the Evening Star, which chronicled the author's experience as a recreational pilot. The recipient of the 1965 O. Henry Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship, Mr. Meyer is a graduate of Wallace Stegner's Stanford Writing Program and a retired professor of English at the University of New Mexico.Andre Dubus III is the author of six books: The Cage Keeper and Other Stories, Bluesman, and the New York Times bestsellers, House of Sand and Fog, The Garden of Last Days (soon to be a major motion picture) and his memoir, Townie. His most recent book, Dirty Love, was published in the fall of 2013. Mr. Dubus has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, The National Magazine Award for Fiction, Two Pushcart Prizes, and he is a 2012 recipient of an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature. His books are published in over twenty-five languages, and he teaches full-time at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. He lives in Massachusetts with his wife, Fontaine, a modern dancer, and their three children.