is a writer and academic. Her book Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language (1989) describes how, as a teenager, she moved to Canada with her parents, who had miraculously survived the Holocaust in the Ukraine. Other works include After Such Knowledge: Memory, History and the Legacy of the Holocaust (2004), and the novel The Secret (2007). Eva Hoffman holds a Ph.D in English and American Literature from Harvard and has been a professor of literature and of creative writing at several institutions including Columbia, the University of Minnesota, and Tufts. Her latest novel is called Illuminations. She currently lives in London. [040609]