Written by one of America's finest contemporary novelists, Other Men's Daughters is the story of an intense love affair between a middle-aged professor and a young woman, wise and worldly beyond her years.

One reviewer writes, "I...was struck not simply by its psychological depth but particularly by the combination of toughness and tenderness through which romantic love was represented and discussed. The lack of sentimentality (in a novel about the refusal to live a life without love) was immensely important to me...and is likely ...to be immensely important ...today."

Richard Stern is the Helen A. Regenstein Professor Emeritus in the Department of English at the University of Chicago. In 1985 he won the Medal of Merit for the Novel awarded every six years by the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. His recent works include Pacific Tremors, published by TriQuarterly Books in 2001, and What Is What Was (Chicago, 2001). Almonds to Zhoof, The Collected Stories of Richard Stern is forthcoming from TriQuarterly Books in Fall 2004.

"For years I have admired the elegant fiction of Richard Stern for its impeccable language, its gracious erudition, and, above all, it's brilliant wit. In Other Men's Daughters, to me his most moving novel, these qualities serve the cause of mercy." -Thomas Berger

"[O]ne of the most valid contenders for the Great American Novel of the decade.... A beautifully written novel that should be read by everyone who cares about the human condition." -Philadelphia Inquirer