Hannah Tinti is the author of Animal Crackers (2004), The Good Thief (2008), and TheTwelve Bullets of Samuel Hawley (2017), all published by Dial. She is also cofounder and editor in chief of One Story magazine.
Tinti recognized herself in Barry’s portrait of the lapsed artist. “I took her lecture to heart,” she says, and decided to commit herself to doodling, sketching, drawing.