A Blessing on the Moon (27 page)

Joseph Skibell
is the author of two other novels,
The English Disease
and
A Curable Romantic. A Blessing on the Moon,
his first novel, received the Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Steven Turner Prize for First Fiction from the Texas Institute of Letters. It was a Book-of-the-Month Club selection and a
Publishers Weekly
Best Book of the Year. Recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, Skibell teaches at Emory University and is the director of the Richard Ellmann Lectures in Modern Literature.