'It was Naomi Roth's problem: first ignored by her then irritating to her and then, all at once, intractably complex and a threat to everything she had done at Webster, and everything she was trying to do.'

Jean Hanff Korelitz is the author of the novels You Should Have Known, Admission, which was made into a movie starring Tina Fey and Paul Rudd, The White Rose, The Sabbathday River and A Jury of Her Peers. She has also written a novel for children, Interference Powder, and a collection of poetry, The Properties of Breath. Her non-fiction has appeared in various anthologies and in publications such as Vogue, Reader's Digest and the New York Times.