TAD CRAWFORD is the author of the novels A Floating Life and On Wine-Dark Seas as well as The Secret Life of Money and a dozen other nonfiction books. His stories and articles have appeared in American Artist, Art in America, The Café Irreal, Confrontation, Communication Arts, Family Circle, Glamour, Guernica, The Nation, and Writer’s Digest. Crawford is the founder and publisher of Allworth Press. The recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts award, he grew up in the artists’ colony of Woodstock, New York. He now lives in New York City and the Hudson Highlands.