E.F. Watling was educated at Christ's Hospital and University College, Oxford. His translations of Greek and Roman plays for the Penguin Classics include the seven plays of Sophocles, nine plays of Plautus, and a selection of the tragedies of Seneca.
StoryCorps founder and New York Times bestselling author Dave Isay shares stories of love and marriage from the revolutionary oral history project. See the author on tour »
Set in New York City in 1938, this is a sophisticated and entertaining debut novel about an irresistible young woman with an uncommon sense of purpose. Read an excerpt. Listen to a podcast.