Maud Casey is the author of two previous novels, THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME, a New York Times Notable Book, and GENEALOGY; and a collection of stories, DRASTIC. She is the recipient of the Calvino Prize and has received fellowships from the Fundación Valparaiso, Hawthornden International Writers Retreat, Château de Lavigny, Dora Maar, and the Passa Porta residency at Villa Hellebosch. Casey teaches at the University of Maryland and lives in Washington, D.C.

Books by Maud Casey

The Man Who Walked Away

by Maud Casey - Fiction, Historical Fiction

This work of fiction is based on an actual mental patient in the late 19th century, Albert Dadas, who was a compulsive walker, and the doctor who treated him. THE MAN WHO WALKED AWAY is an interesting look at the human mind, especially when it does not function properly. What still remains in the 21st century is probably medicine's greatest mystery --- the workings of the human nervous system and the three pounds of gray matter that control it.

The Shape of Things to Come

by Maud Casey - Fiction