Mimi Schwartz has most recently published Good Neighbors, Bad Times: Echoes of My Father’s German Village, a winner of the 2008 ForeWord Book of the Year Award in Memoir. Her other books include Thoughts from a Queen-Sized Bed and Writing True: The Art and Craft of Creative Nonfiction (with Sondra Perl). Six essays have been Notables in The Best American Essays. She is professor emerita of Richard Stockton College and lives in Princeton, New Jersey. (updated 8/2009)