Judith Freeman is the author of a collection of short stories, Family Attractions, and five novels, including The Chinchilla Farm, Set for Life, A Desert of Pure Feeling, Red Water, and MacArthur Park. She received the Western Heritage Literary Award in1992, and a Guggenheim Fellowship in Fiction in 1996. In 2005, she was awarded a Visiting Fellowship at the Rothermere American Institute at Oxford, where she spent a month consulting the Raymond Chandler Archive in the Bodleian Library as part of her research for her biography of Chandler, The Long Embrace. In 2012 she was awarded the Harry Ransom Center’s Erle Stanley Gardner Fellowship for research into the intersection between jazz and noir. She has collaborated with the composer Chris Theofanidis on a song performed at Carnegie Hall and the American Academy in Rome and has also worked on projects with the photographers Anthony Hernandez and Tina Barney. Her memoir, The Latter Days, was published in 2016. Her essays and reviews have appeared in numerous magazines and publications. She is a past board member of PEN Center USA West, has taught at USC in the Masters of Professional Writing Program. She lives in Idaho and Los Angeles.