Bruce Holsinger is the author of four novels, including?The Displacements?and?The Gifted School, and many works of non-fiction. His books have been recognized with the Colorado Book Award, the John Hurt Fisher Prize, the Philip Brett Award, the John Nicholas Brown Prize, the Modern Language Association's Prize for a First Book, and others. His essays and reviews have appeared in?The New York Times and Vanity Fair, and he is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. He teaches in the department of English at the University of Virginia, where he specialises in medieval literature and modern critical thought.