Rikki Ducornet is the author of seven novels including The Fan Maker's Inquisition, an L.A. Times Book of the Year, and The Jade Cabinet, a finalist for the National Book Critics' Circle Award. She has illustrated books by Robert Coover and Jorge Luis Borges. Her lithographs, drawings and paintings have been exhibited widely, including the Museo de Bellas Artes, Mexico CIty, Museau National de Cestro Coimbra, Portugal, the Fine Arts museums of West Berlin, Ixelles, Brno and Lille, and in the Biblioteque Nationale. In 1993 she received the Lannan Literary Award in Fiction.