Lisa Foad

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Lullabies for Little Criminals has set the publishing industry agog. The winner of the 2007 version of Canada Reads was also hosen for Barnes & Noble’s Holiday 2006 Discover Great New Writers campaign, and People magazine’s book club has elected it prime pickings.<

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After disarming heavyweight literary agent Susan Golomb with an unsolicited pitch letter (unheard of!), Marisha Pessl found her debut novel—a 500-page slugger, Special Topics in Calamity Physics—the cynosure of a fevered bidding war. In the end, it fetched Pessl a sixfigure jackpot and heaps of tongue-wagging critical acclaim.