Paul Verhaeghen was born in Belgium in 1965. Verhaeghen, a cognitive psychologist and novelist, moved to the United States in 1997, while continuing to publish in his native Dutch. His first novel, Lichtenberg, was awarded the 1996 Flemish Debut Prize. Working together with Isabelle Rossaert, he published the epistolary novel Mons Veneris Variations in 1999....