In The Tunnel

John Wray was born in Washington, DC in 1971 and raised in Buffalo, New York. His father is American and his mother is Austrian, and he himself is a citizen of both countries. His first novel, 'The Right Hand of Sleep' (Vintage UK/Knopf), was published in 2001 and won a Whiting Writers' Award. His second, 'Canaan's Tongue', is published by Chatto & Windus in the UK and by Vintage in the US. 'The Tunnel' is taken from his latest novel, 'Lowboy', which will be published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in 2008. At present he lives in Brooklyn.