One of America's most beloved writers, Jayne Anne Phillips is the author of the huge bestseller, Machine Dreams. Her latest novel, Lark & Termite, was a New York Times bestseller, and a nominee for the National Book Award in Fiction. In Lark & Termite, Phillips has created a rich, wonderfully moving story of loss and love. Lark, a teenage girl, spends her days caring for her younger brother, Termite, a child unable to walk and talk, but who seems blessed with the gifts of sight and feeling. The novel links past, present and future, as the characters' stories reveal family secrets and dreams, and the love that unites them. Phillips is currently Professor of English and Director of the MFA Program at Rutgers-Newark, the State University of New Jersey.