Elizabeth Hawes grew up in the Mid-West, arrived wide-eyed in New York after college and study in France, and has been a writer since her early days at The New Yorker, drawn particularly to the arts and urban culture, gradually working her way from journalism to longer narratives. In the process, she married, had three children and many dogs, moved out of the city and back to the city and from uptown to downtown.Elizabeth Hawes is the author of Camus, A Romance and New York, New York, How the Apartment House Transformed the Life of the City, 1869-1930. A former staff member and contributor to The New Yorker, she has also written for The New York Times Magazine and Book Review, The Nation and numerous other publications.