Joanna Hershon page

Joanna Hershon is the author of three novels: Swimming, The Outside of August and The German Bride (March 2008).

This new novel is a departure for Hershon, as it is meticulously researched historical fiction, allowing an original glimpse into the American West. Pat Conroy, (legendary author of, among other novels, The Prince of Tides) recently said, "Joanna Hershon's new book, The German Bride, is a surprising novel of grace and refinement. It is a tale of the American West, but unlike any I have ever read before. She enters Willa Cather territory and does it with a rare elegance and complete originality. I was not familiar with Joanna Hershon's work when I read this novel and it made me order her first two books."

Inspired by a little-known period of American history, The German Bride follows Eva Frank, a Berlin Jewess, who accepts a marriage proposal from Abraham Shein and embarks on a journey to the wilds of Santa Fe, New Mexico in the 1860s. The German Bride is a gritty glimpse into the bar rooms and brothels of a lawless frontier territory, where an unforgettable cast of characters struggle for survival and redemption in the brutal, glorious desert of the American Southwest.

Joanna Hershon’s writing has been included in the 2008 literary anthology Brooklyn Was Mine, short-listed for the 2007 O. Henry Prize Stories, and published in One Story, Post Road, and The Virginia Quarterly Review. A new serialized story is forthcoming at www.fivechapters.com. She teaches Undergraduate Creative Writing at Columbia University, and lives in Brooklyn with her husband, the painter Derek Buckner, and their twin sons.

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