Chris Bohjalian
Biography
Chris Bohjalian
Chris Bohjalian is the author of 14 books, including the New York Times bestsellers SECRETS OF EDEN, SKELETONS AT THE FEAST, THE DOUBLE BIND, BEFORE YOU KNOW KINDNESS, THE LAW OF SIMILARS and MIDWIVES.
His new novel, THE NIGHT STRANGERS, arrives on October 4, 2011. It's a ghost story inspired by a door in his basement and Sully Sullenberger's successful ditching of an Airbus in the Hudson.
His most recent novel, SECRETS OF EDEN, is filming now for a Lifetime Television movie, which will air on November 21st. It stars John Stamos and Anna Gunn.
Chris won the New England Book Award in 2002, and his novel, MIDWIVES, was a number one New York Times bestseller, a selection of Oprah's Book Club, a Publishers Weekly "Best Book," and a New England Booksellers Association Discovery pick. His work has been translated into over 25 languages and twice before become movies (Midwives and Past the Bleachers).
He has written for a wide variety of magazines, including Cosmopolitan, Reader's Digest, and the Boston Globe Sunday Magazine, and has been a Sunday columnist for Gannett's Burlington Free Press since 1992. Chris graduated from Amherst College, and lives in Vermont with his wife and daughter.
Chris Bohjalian
