Nell Zink

Helen "Nell" Louise Zink (born 1964) is an American writer living in Germany. After being a long term penpal of Avner Shats, she came to prominence in her fifties with the help of Jonathan Franzen and her novel, ''Mislaid'', was longlisted for the National Book Award. Her debut ''The Wallcreeper'' was released in the United States by the independent press Dorothy and named one of 100 notable books of 2014 by ''The New York Times'', as was ''Mislaid''. Zink then released ''Nicotine'', ''Private Novelist'' and ''Doxology'' through Ecco Press. In 2022 she published ''Avalon'', again a New York Times notable book, with Alfred A. Knopf. In 2025 she received a Guggenheim Fellowship. Provided by Wikipedia