Richard Bausch

Richard Bausch has published nine volumes of stories. An acknowledged master of the short story, he has also written thirteen highly regarded novels, most recently Playhouse (Knopf, 2023). Three full-length motion pictures have been made from his work. He won the prestigious Rea Award for the Short Story in 2012, and the PEN/Malamud Prize in 2005, and has just delivered to Knopf his tenth collection, The Fate of Others, from which this story is taken.