John Loughery is the author of the 1996 Pulitzer Prize finalist John Sloan: Painter and Rebel and has edited the anthologies First Sightings: Contemporary Stories of American Youth , Into the Widening World: International Coming-of-Age Stories , and The Eloquent Essay: An Anthology of Classic & Creative Nonfiction . He teaches English at the Nightingale-Bamford School in New York City.