Eula Biss on Quitting Her Job to Do Her Work

“I was fairly clear on the fact that I was never going to make money off my writing… The upside of that was that my writing was all play, for me.”

Eula Biss is the author of four books, including The New York Times editors’ choice, Having and Being Had; The New York Times bestseller On Immunity: An Inoculation, which was named one of the 10 Best Books of 2014 by The New York Times Book Review, and Notes from No Man’s Land: American Essays, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism. Her work has appeared in Harper’s, The New York Times, The Believer, and elsewhere, and has been supported by an NEA Literature Fellowship, a Howard Foundation Fellowship, and a Guggenheim Fellowship.