Eula Biss is the author of four books, including the New York Times bestseller On Immunity: An Inoculation, which was named one of the 10 Best Books of 2014 by The New York Times Book Review, and Notes from No Man’s Land: American Essays, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism. Her work has appeared in Harper’s Magazine, The New York Times, The Believer, and elsewhere, and has been supported by an NEA Literature Fellowship, a Howard Foundation Fellowship, and a Guggenheim Fellowship.

A FRESH TAKE ON MONEY FROM A NECESSARY WRITER: Already an influential voice in our culture-her Notes on No Man's Land sparked a new conversation about whiteness in American life and On Immunity: An Inoculation, a much-discussed examination of vaccination in our cultural imagination, was a New York Times bestseller-Having and Being Had was praised by critics as exploring the "ways we reveal our own biases around money, class, wealth, property & work" (Los Angeles Times).

FIRST SERIALS IN THE NEW YORKER and HARPER'S: Excerpts from Having and Being Had appeared in these two prestigious and influential venues in the weeks before and just after publication, generating excitement from new and old Biss readers alike.

TOLD THROUGH EVERYDAY STORIES, EMINENTLY RELATABLE: The power of Having and Being Had comes in large part through its relatable stories of Biss's own family and working life and the assumptions and transactions they represent-issues that have been on all our minds as we reevaluate value and work in a new reality.

ENGAGING TAKE ON DIFFICULT ISSUES: Biss's great gift is her ability to decode the myths, beliefs, and superstitions surrounding the ways we locate ourselves in the world. Just as she unpacked our assumptions about race in Notes from No Man's Land, and the physical self in On Immunity, here she shines light on that most intimate and revealing of topics-the money we have (and don't), the way we choose how it's saved (or spent); the ways we behave when we have it (and don't).