Meg Wolitzer is the author of several acclaimed novels, most recently The Uncoupling (¿tingles with playfulness and wicked observation¿ Independent ) and The Wife (¿has you howling with recognition¿ Allison Pearson), The Position (¿one of the best and most human books I¿ve read all year¿ Erica Wagner) and The Ten-Year Nap (¿as incisive and pitiless and clear-eyed a chronicler of female-male tandems as Philip Roth or John Updike' Chicago Tribune ). She is married with two sons and lives in New York City.