Background
Joanna Hershon was born on Long Island, New York, United States.
500 S State St, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, United States
Joanna Hershon graduated from the University of Michigan.
New York, NY 10027, United States
Joanna Hershon earned a Master of Arts in Fiction Writing at Columbia University.
Joanna Hershon reads her book aloud for the audience.
(Critics and readers alike hailed Swimming, Joanna Hershon...)
Critics and readers alike hailed Swimming, Joanna Hershon’s fiction debut. The Outside of August is a mesmerizing, beautifully written story that combs the emotional landscape of its characters with power and precision.
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2008
(Joanna Hershon’s novel is a gripping and gritty portrayal...)
Joanna Hershon’s novel is a gripping and gritty portrayal of urban European immigrants struggling with New World frontier life in the mid-nineteenth century. Vivid and emotionally compelling, The German Bride is also a beautiful narrative on how far one must travel to make peace with the past.
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2008
(A stunning literary novel that captures the lingering eff...)
A stunning literary novel that captures the lingering effects of longing and loss, Swimming is by turns a gripping family story, a heartbreaking coming of age journey, and a suspenseful psychological investigation into the meaning and limits of fidelity, identity, and intimacy.
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2009
(Joanna Hershon’s A Dual Inheritance is an engrossing nove...)
Joanna Hershon’s A Dual Inheritance is an engrossing novel of passion, friendship, betrayal, and class - and their reverberations across generations. It is an old-fashioned social novel that feels fresh because of its deft, clear-eyed approach to still-unspoken rules about ethnicity, money, and identity.
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2013
(Unwinding like a suspense novel, Joanna Hershon's St. Ivo...)
Unwinding like a suspense novel, Joanna Hershon's St. Ivo is a powerful investigation into the meaning of choice and family, whether we ever know the people closest to us, and how, when someone goes missing from our lives, we can ever let them go.
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2020
Joanna Hershon was born on Long Island, New York, United States.
Joanna Hershon graduated from the University of Michigan. Later she earned a Master of Arts in Fiction Writing at Columbia University.
Joanna Hershon built a career as an author. In Joanna Hershon's debut novel, Swimming, Vivian Silver is a free spirit who settled down in the 1960s with the staid Jeb Wheeler on his New Hampshire acreage. Here their lives and the lives of their children become closely linked to their hand-built house and a nearby pond, a murky pool that witnesses the darkest of family secrets.
Hershon's second novel, The Outside of August, is also the story of an unhappy family. In this story, Alan and Charlotte Green are a professor of neurobiology and artist, respectively, who have raised their two children, August and Alice, on Long Island. Charlotte is emotionally and physically unavailable to her children much of the time because she takes unannounced and extended trips that last up to several months at a time. Alan is physically present but absorbed by long hours of work.
Besides her writing career, Joanna Hershon also works as an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Creative Writing department at Columbia University.
(A stunning literary novel that captures the lingering eff...)
2009(Joanna Hershon’s novel is a gripping and gritty portrayal...)
2008(Joanna Hershon’s A Dual Inheritance is an engrossing nove...)
2013(Critics and readers alike hailed Swimming, Joanna Hershon...)
2008(Unwinding like a suspense novel, Joanna Hershon's St. Ivo...)
2020Joanna Hershon married George Derek Buckner, an artist, on July 24, 1999. They have two sons - Wyatt and Noah.