Edward Hopper has gripped the imaginations of writers worldwide. Haunting in their perfect embodiment of quiet loneliness, his paintings have found their way into all forms of fiction from modern love stories to nail-biting thrillers. In this beautifully illustrated volume, a colorful array of fiction excerpts are united with the extraordinary Hopper images that inspired them.

Featured authors include: Lawrence Block, Peter Hanke, Fernando Huici, Michel Boujut, Michael Connelly, Joan Elizabeth Goodman, Jeffrey Deaver, Ira Levin,
Cynthia Freeman, Joyce Carol Oates, William Faulkner, Stuart Dybek, Catherine M. Rae, John Updike, Lucia Toso, David Thomson and Lawrence Sanders.

Gail Levin is one of the pre-eminent Hopper scholars today. She is the author of The Poetry of Solitude, Edward Hopper: A Catalog Raissone, Edward Hopper: An Intimate Biography, and Hopper's Places.