Dave King’s recent novel, The Ha-Ha, was published by Little, Brown and Company and was a national bestseller and named one of the year’s best books by the Washington Post, the Christian Science Monitor, and the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. In Rome, he will continue working on his forthcoming publication, Trastevere: A Bagatelle (also to be published by Little, Brown). King received his MFA in writing from Columbia University in 2000.