M. T. ANDERSON is the New York Times bestselling author of Feed, a National Book Award Finalist and winner of the LA Times Book Prize; The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, winner of the 2006 National Book Award; and Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad, a Boston Globe/Horn Book Honor Book, among many other books for children and young adults. He is also the author of three graphic novels, including The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge, a National Book Award Finalist, with Eugene Yelchin.