George Prochnik's most recent book, The Impossible Exile- Stefan Zweig at the End of the World,areceived the National Jewish Book Award for Biography/Memoir in 2014 and was shortlisted for the Wingate Prize in the UK. Prochnik is also the author of In Pursuit of Silence- Listening for Meaning in a World of Noise (2010), and Putnam Camp- Sigmund Freud, James Jackson Putnam and the Purpose of American Psychology (2006). He has written for The New York Times, The New Yorker, Bookforumaand theaLA Review of Books, and is editor-at-large for Cabinet magazine.a