Ida Fink is the author of A Scrap of Time ("remarkable," New York Times) and The Journey ("a gift," the New Yorker). Born in Poland in 1921, she lived in a ghetto throughout 1942 and went into hiding until the of the war.

Francine Prose is the author of numerous highly acclaimed works of fiction, including Household Saints, Primitive People, and Blue Angel. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, GQ, and The Paris Review. She is a contributing editor at Harper's, and she writes regularly on art for The Wall Street Journal. She lives in New York City.

Ida Fink is the author of A Scrap of Time ("remarkable," New York Times) and The Journey ("a gift," the New Yorker). Born in Poland in 1921, she lived in a ghetto throughout 1942 and went into hiding until the of the war.