Enormously impressive: profoundly and humanely engaged with the mysteries of belief and disbelief ... dismayingly funny in the way that only really serious books can be -- Guardian on 'To Rise Again at a Decent Hour' Joshua Ferris has proved his astonishing ability to spin gold from ordinary air ... As brave and adept as any writer out there -- New York Times Book Review on 'To Rise Again at a Decent Hour' Compelling but never cheap, inventive but never obscure ... Ferris has secured his status as exactly the sort of mainstream literary novelist American fiction needs -- Independent on Sunday on 'To Rise Again at a Decent Hour'

Joshua Ferris was born in Illinois in 1974. He is the author of Then We Came to the End (2007), which was nominated for the National Book Award and longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award, and the highly acclaimed The Unnamed. In 2010 he was selected for the New Yorker's prestigious '20 under 40' list. In 2014 To Rise Again at a Decent Hour won the Dylan Thomas Prize and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. He lives in upstate New York.