What does an author do when his hero is a nasty piece of work?
Bruce Duffy is the award-winning author of the critically-acclaimed The World As I Found It, a fictional life of Ludwig Wittgenstein and Last Comes The Egg. Besides his researches in Ethiopia for his new novel, he has done reporting that has taken him to Haiti, Bosnia and Taliban Afghanistan. His first novel was recently released in the New York Review of Books Classics series. He lives with his wife in Bethesda, Maryland.