Frederick Kaufman is a contributing editor at Harper’s magazine, and his nonfiction has appeared in The New York Times Sunday Magazine, The New York Times Sunday Book Review, New York Magazine, The New Yorker, Harper’s, Gentleman’s Quarterly, Gourmet, Saveur, Interview, Spin, Spy, Aperture, Allure, Publisher’s Weekly, The Village Voice Literary Supplement, and numerous other publications. His most recent book, A Short History of the American Stomach, was published by Harcourt, and he blogs about food culture at AmericanStomach.com. Other books include Manuel Alvarez Bravo: Photographs and Memories, and the novel 42 Days and Nights on the Iberian Peninsula with Anís Ladrón. Documentary filmwriting credits include Fastpitch, the grand prizewinner of the Nashville International Film Festival. Kaufman, a Professor of English and Journalism at the College of Staten Island, received his B.A. from Yale and a Ph.D. in English from The Graduate Center.