奥斯丁·怀特（Austin Wright），生于纽约，美国知名小说家、学者，1985年美国怀廷文学奖获得者。怀特生前为辛辛那提大学英语教授，著有7部长篇小说和4部文艺理论著作。《夜行动物》（Tony＆Susan）是他生前最后一部作品，自1993年出版后便引发广泛关注，在美国多次再版，经久不衰。

2016年，素有“天才设计师”、“鬼才跨界导演”之称的汤姆·福特将《夜行动物》改编成同名电影，以富有张力的空间和色彩，将故事中悬疑、惊悚的情绪渲染得淋漓尽致。同年9月，电影《夜行动物》斩获威尼斯电影节评委会大奖，随后接连入围金球奖和英国电影学院奖的最佳改编剧本奖，在评委和观众中深受好评。

THE BOOK THAT INSPIRED TOM FORD'S NEW FILM, NOCTURNAL ANIMALS, STARRING JAKE GYLLENHAAL AND AMY ADAMS

"A SUPERB AND THRILLING NOVEL...EXTRAORDINARY." -- Ian McEwan

"COMPELLING...MESMERIZING...ABSOLUTELY IRRESISTIBLE."--New York Times

"A PERFECT LITERARY PUZZLE, AN IRRESISTIBLE TALE ABOUT MARRIAGE AND MURDER, BOTH THRILLING AND MOVING."--Scott Turow

"A PAGE-TURNER OF A LITERARY THRILLER."--Sara Waters

"BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN, PERFECTLY PACED, IMPRESSIVELY CLEVER, AND ULTIMATELY SHOCKING IN A WAY YOU NEVER SEE COMING."--Nelson DeMille

"ABSOLUTE TERRIFYING, BEAUTIFUL, AND APPALLING. PARTS OF IT SHOCKED ME, AND I AM NOT EASILY SHOCKED."--Ruth Rendell

Fifteen years ago, Susan Morrow left her first husband, Edward Sheffield, an unpublished writer. Now, she's enduring middle class suburbia as a doctor's wife, when out of the blue she receives a package containing the manuscript of her ex-husband's first novel. He writes asking her to read the book; she was always his best critic, he says.

As Susan reads, she is drawn into the fictional life of Tony Hastings, a math professor driving his family to their summer house in Maine. And as we read with her, we too become lost in Sheffield's thriller. As the Hastings' ordinary, civilized lives are disastrously, violently sent off course, Susan is plunged back into the past, forced to confront the darkness that inhabits her, and driven to name the fear that gnaws at her future and will change her life.

TONY AND SUSAN is a dazzling, eerie, riveting novel about fear and regret, blood and revenge, marriage and creativity. It is simply one of a kind.