I'm a Non-Fiction writer, who's explored several genres of this interestingly catchall category: narrative history, research-based memoir and a more fanciful kind of memoir. My fifth and newest book, BALANCHINE AND THE LOST MUSE, is maybe my favorite. It sent me deep into Russian archives, to find out how the great dance-maker Balanchine discovered his art, during the crazy years of the Russian revolution. And to find out if his young, gifted ballerina friend was murdered, and of so, why. I grew up in St. Louis. I live in New York City. I teach literature and writing to the very interesting students of Eugene Lang College of New School -in Greenwich Village.