Jim (James R. Shepard) lives in Williamstown, Massachusetts, with his wife, author Karen Shepard, and their three children. He’s the J. Leland Miller Professor of English at Williams College and the author of six novels and two story collections. His fiction has appeared in Harper’s, The Atlantic Monthly, Esquire, and The New Yorker, and he is a columnist for The Believer. His third story collection, Like You’d Understand, Anyway, and a collection of film essays, Heroes in Disguise, will be published in 2007. He is an incredibly insightful teacher of writing and one of the funniest, most compassionate people you could ever hope to meet.
Novels:
Project X
Nosferatu (with an introduction by Ron Hansen)
Kiss of the Wolf
Flights
Lights Out in the Reptile House
Paper Doll
Story Collections:
Like You’d Understand, Anyway (forthcoming in September 2007)
Love and Hydrogen
Batting Against Castro
