Awarded a Guggenheim fellowship for fiction, the Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize, and, three times, National Endowment fellowships for fiction & creative nonfiction, Thomas Farber has been a Fulbright Scholar and Rockefeller Foundation Scholar. His many books include Penultimates: The Now & the Not-Yet; Acting My Age; The End of My Wits; and The Beholder. Visiting Writer at Swarthmore College and Distinguished Visiting Writer at the University of Hawai‘i, Senior Lecturer Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, Thomas Farber is Editor-in-Chief of El León Literary Arts.