Allison Lynn is an America novelist. She is best known for Now You See It (Simon & Schuster, 2004), which tells the story of an American woman's disappearance and her husband's search for her. The novel won the William Faulkner Award and the Bronx Chapter One Prize. US Weekly

Us Weekly

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 named the novel a "hot book pick" in the summer of 2004.

Lynn is a graduate of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College is a private, Ivy League university in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States. The institution comprises a liberal arts college, Dartmouth Medical School, Thayer School of Engineering, and the Tuck School of Business, as well as 19 graduate programs in the arts and sciences...

 and New York University

New York University

New York University is a private, nonsectarian research university based in New York City. NYU's main campus is situated in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan...

's Creative Writing Program, where she recently taught courses in fiction. She lives in New York City with her husband, the novelist Michael Dahlie

Michael Dahlie

Michael Dahlie is an American novelist. He won a 2010 Whiting Writers' Award.-Life:He graduated from Colorado College, and from the University of Wisconsin–Madison with an MA in European history and from Washington University in St...

 (A Gentleman's Guide to Graceful Living

A Gentleman's Guide to Graceful Living

-Plot introduction:The book is about a man, named Arthur Camden, who is the great-grandson of the owner of a club which is named Maidenhead Grange. The club is a beloved Catskills fly-fishing lounge. The lounge is home to the Hanover Street Fly Casters, a group that was founded in 1878 by 12...

).