About the author: Mark grew up in a suburb of Chicago and attended Harvard, where he studied History and English literature. He completed his studies in 2009 and moved to New York intending to write fiction, but instead began a career on Wall Street. He worked at a fund of hedge funds in New York for a year and a half, at UBS in Singapore during 2011, and returned to New York in 2012, where he worked as a junior trader at a hedge fund until November 2012. He’s been working on this novel since December, and expects to finish in late 2013.