Andersen is the author of three novels, including "Turn of the Century" (Random House, 1999), which was a national bestseller and "New York Times" Notable Book of the Year, and the "New York Times" bestseller "Heyday" (Random House, 2007), which won the Langum Prize for the best American historical fiction of 2007. Random House published his third novel, "True Believers", in the summer of 2012, and it was named one of the best novels of that year by the "San Francisco Chronicle" and the "Washington Post". His short fiction has been published in anthologies such as "Stories: All-New Tales" (HarperCollins, 2010).