Author of The Greenest Branch, a novel of Germany's first female physician
The Whale: A Love Story is a fictionalized take on a question that has puzzled literary scholars for more than 150 years. Was the short, intense friendship between two American writers Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne simply a meeting of minds, or something more and - given the times - forbidden? The two first met... Continue Reading →
Disclaimer: This review is based on an advanced reading copy provided by the authors. In the summer of 1914, everyone thought that the “war to end all wars” would end within four months, and everybody would be home for Christmas. As we all know, that did not happen. The subsequent four years are the setting... Continue Reading →
