M.T. Anderson

M.T. Anderson is the New York Times best-selling author of the satirical novels Feed (a Finalist for the National Book Award and winner of the L.A. Times Book Prize) and The Pox Party (winner of the 2006 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature), as well as numerous other books for both children and adults. His nonfiction has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Slate, and Salon. His recent nonfiction book Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad was long-listed for the National Book Award. He attended Harvard and Cambridge universities and holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Syracuse University. He divides his time between Boston and Vermont.