Pince-nez aquiver on his nose, the elegant banker leaned across the wood-inlaid desk in his Zurich office last week and complained: “We have been called Shylocks, gnomes, sinister manipulators ...

For years, writes Emma Goldberg in this profile for the New York Times (gift link), Curtis Sittenfeld's books "have captured the concerns of a group that has lately become a cultural fixation, ...