CHRIS BOHJALIAN: A BIOGRAPHY

Chris Bohjalian, a native of White Plains, New York, is the author of nine novels, including his most recent New York Times bestseller, Before You Know Kindness, as well as a collection of columns and essays, Idyll Banter: Weekly Excursions to a Very Small Town. A new novel, The Double Bind, is scheduled for publication in February 2007. He won the New England Book Award in 2002. 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 18 languages, been published in 21 countries, and twice become acclaimed movies (Midwives and Past the Bleachers). The Law of Similars and The Buffalo Soldier are currently in development for movies. 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. Bohjalian graduated from Amherst College in Amherst, Massachusetts, and lives in Lincoln, Vermont, with his wife and daughter.