Jonathan Hull is the bestselling author of Losing Julia and The Distance from Normandy. His latest novel, The Devoted, has just been released as of August 2012.A graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, Hull spent ten years as a correspondent at TIME, including three as the Jerusalem Bureau Chief. His reporting has ranged from the Gulf War and the Palestinian uprising to presidential politics and the troubled underside of American society. A cover story he wrote on youth violence won the Society of Professional Journalists' prestigious Sigma Delta Chi award for magazine journalism.
A father of two, Hull lives in Sausalito, California, where he is at work on his fourth novel. A message to readers:"I want to offer my profound gratitude for the many expressions of support and encouragement from friends and readers over the years. I also thank you for your patience as I emerge back to full and robust health following an unexpectedly fierce journey to the edges of human fragility and resilience.In her book, Illness as Metaphor, Susan Sontag wrote, 'Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick. Although we all prefer to use only the good passport, sooner or later each of us is obliged, at least for a spell, to identify ourselves as citizens of that other place.' My own passage only deepens my reverence for each unfolding moment of beauty and grace, of compassion and communion. Most of all, I am inspired by the quiet nobility of all who dare throw open their hearts again and again, day after day, for the sheer and wild majesty of dwelling at the wondrous frontier of life."