Marie Arana is writer-at-large for the Washington Post. She had been editor in chief of Book World, the literary review section of the Washington Post. Arana has written several books.  Her most recent is Lima Nights, a novel published in January 2009. She also wrote Cellophane, a satirical novel set in the Peruvian Amazon, published in 2006, a finalist for the John Sargent First Novel Prize. In 2001, she released a memoir about her bicultural childhood, American Chica: Two Worlds, One Childhood, which was a finalist for the 2001 National Book Award, as well as the PEN/Memoir Award. She has written introductions for many books, among them a National Geographic book of aerial photographs of South America, Through the Eyes of the Condor, and, more recently, a book about Machu Picchu, Stone Offerings. She is currently at work on a biography of Simón Bolivar.  

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