Ellen Douglas is the author of the novels A Family’s Affairs, Where the Dreams Cross, and Can’t Quit You, Baby. Her short story collections include Black Cloud, White Cloud, and Truth: Four Stories I Am Finally Old Enough to Tell, and her most recent work is Witnessing, a collection of essays. She has received two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Fellowship of Southern Writers’ first Hillsdale Prize for fiction in 1989. In 2000, she received a literature award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.