Daniel Stern is the author of nine novels, and three other story collections. In 1990 Stern's Twice Told Tales won the Rosenthal Foundation Award given by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He's been at various times in his working life a professional cellist, a professor at Wesleyan University, head of advertising for Warner Bros. Motion Pictures and for CBS Entertainment, and director of humanities at the 92nd Street Y in New York City. He is currently Cullen Distinguished Professor English in the creative writing program at the University of Houston.