Larry Duberstein’s most recent novel, The Day the Bozarts Died, was a BookSense Notable Book for 2007. Prior to that, The Handsome Sailor was a New York Times Notable Book for 1998 and The Marriage Hearse, a New York Times New & Noteworthy selection in 1988. A native of Brooklyn, New York, Duberstein was an undergraduate at Wesleyan University and a graduate student at Harvard University. He now resides mostly in rural New Hampshire where his nest, emptied of three matchless daughters, has been restocked with a small flock of somewhat interchangeable chickens.