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Chris Bohjalian
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Chris Bohjalian

Chris Bohjalian is the critically acclaimed author of 11 novels, including Skeletons at the Feast and his most recent New York Times bestseller, The Double Bind, published by Pocket Books. His work has been translated into eighteen languages and... Read full bio

Author Revealed:
Q. How would you describe your life in only 8 words?
A. Spectacularly blessed -- though still challenged by my iPhone
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My life in 8 words: "Spectacularly blessed -- though still challenged by my iPhone"
The Sandcastle Girls will be released on August 02, 2012 in eBook
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The Sandcastle Girls will be released on August 01, 2012 in Hardcover, eBook
about 22 hours ago
Night Strangers will be released on November 24, 2011 in eBook
Nov 24, 2011
Night Strangers is now available in eBook
Nov 24, 2011
Night Strangers will be released on November 01, 2011 in Trade Paperback
Nov 01, 2011
Night Strangers is now available in Trade Paperback
Nov 01, 2011
Secrets of Eden will be released on March 17, 2011 in Mass Market Paperback
Mar 17, 2011
Secrets of Eden is now available in Mass Market Paperback
Mar 17, 2011
Secrets of Eden will be released on July 22, 2010 in
Jul 22, 2010
Secrets of Eden is now available in
Jul 22, 2010
Secrets of Eden will be released on April 01, 2010 in
Apr 01, 2010
Secrets of Eden is now available in
Apr 01, 2010
Excerpt:
Chapter 1 from Skeletons at the Feast
Jul 17, 2009
Excerpt:
Prologue from Midwives
Jul 17, 2009
Jul 17, 2009
Author Revealed Answer:
What is your motto or maxim?
Jul 17, 2009

Chris Bohjalian Revealed

Chris Bohjalian Q. What is your motto or maxim? A. "Have we learned nothing?" Q. Which living person do you most admire? A. Barack Obama Q. How would you describe perfect happiness? A. I am always happiest when I am with my wife and my daughter.

And when we are together in -- Warning, Mid-Life Novelist Cliche Dead Ahead -- Italy, I am especially content. Give me my family, a bicycle, and a bottle of wine and I am one happy fellow.
Q. If you could eat only one thing for the rest of your days, what would it be? A. Pecorino cheese Q. What is your biggest pet peeve? A. Loud cell phone conversations on beaches or airlines before the main cabin door has shut. Learn more about Chris Bohjalian

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Cleveland Live, May 11, 2012
...The reader is left haunted by the all-too-fleeting specters of those long-ago schoolhouse kids." The Night Strangers Chris Bohjalian (Broadway, 369 pp.) $15 Bohjalian's latest combines real horror -- a terrible plane accident -- with otherworldly horror...
Columbus Dispatch, May 7, 2012
...exploring the highs and lows of Hollywood. (July 3) The Sandcastle Girls (Doubleday, 320 pages, $25.95) by Chris Bohjalian: A historical love story begins in 1915 in Aleppo, Syria, and travels to the present in the United States. The author’s Armenian...
Columbus Dispatch, May 7, 2012
...exploring the highs and lows of Hollywood. (July 3) The Sandcastle Girls (Doubleday, 320 pages, $25.95) by Chris Bohjalian: A historical love story begins in 1915 in Aleppo, Syria, and travels to the present in the United States. The author’s Armenian...
USA Today, May 2, 2012
...the near future, "smart" technology turns against us; soon to be a Spielberg movie. The Night Strangers by Chris Bohjalian (Broadway, $15, fiction, reprint). An airline pilot is haunted — literally — by the aftermath of a fatal crash...
Bay City Times, March 24, 2012
...are a few of the questions you’ll find at the One Book One Community online discussion of Chris Bohjalian’s "Skeletons at the Feast,” beginning Sunday, April 1. Bohjalian drew from an unpublished World War II diary to tell the story of an unlikely...
Bay City Times, March 24, 2012
...Saginaw libraries’ One Book One Community program launches its online forum at saginawlibrary.org/booktalk, opening a dialogue on Chris Bohjalian’s "Skeletons at the Feast.” Based on an unpublished WWII diary, it follows a Prussian aristocrat and...
KPTM FOX 42, March 20, 2012
...SOURCE Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics Compliance & Ethics Institute, October 14 – 17, 2012, Las Vegas, ARIA in Las Vegas MINNEAPOLIS Strategies for enhancing a compliance and ethics officer's effectiveness will be presented by SCCE Advisory...
Adirondack Daily Enterprise, April 19, 2012
...- The Adirondack Center for Writing and Paul Smith's College will host New York Times bestselling author Chris Bohjalian Thursday, April 26 at the college's VIC.Bohjalian - who wrote "The Double Bind," "Skeletons at the Feast" and "Midwives" - will read...
Burlington Press, April 15, 2012
...all, just like Betsey Rice Lovejoy Schaefer, none of them none of us is really a footnote. Write Chris Bohjalian care of the Free Press, P. O. Box 10, Burlington, Vt. 05402, or visit him at http://on.fb.me/ChrisBohjalian or www.chrisbohjalian.com...
Lifetime, April 13, 2012
...to the small screen in the Lifetime Original Movie, “ ,” co-starring Anna Gunn (“Breaking Bad,” “The Practice”). Based on Chris Bohjalian’s New York Times best-selling novel, “Secrets of Eden” centers on Stephen Drew (Stamos), an adored...
Bay City Times, April 9, 2012
...Temple Theatre as part of One Book One Community.SAGINAW, MI — When a friend asked Vermont author Chris Bohjalian to take a look at his grandmother’s diary — the friend's mother had just translated the German chronicle of life on the family’s...
Burlington Press, April 8, 2012
...It is in a word epic. And the emotions it triggers are as big as that boat. Write Chris Bohjalian care of the Free Press, P. O. Box 10, Burlington, Vt. 05402, or visit him at http://on.fb.me/ChrisBohjalian or www.chrisbohjalian.com...
Indian Television, March 31, 2012
...the company’s slate are 'Mankind The Story of All of Us', 'Seven Days of Sex', 'Dance Moms', 'Chris Bohjalian’s Secrets of Eden', '10 Things You Don’t Know About', 'Shipping Wars' and 'Pawn Stars' - the format...
World Screen News, March 27, 2012
...won't. It is produced by Megalomedia for A&E. Also on offer is the two-hour Lifetime original movie Chris Bohjalian’s Secrets of Eden, based on a New York Times best-selling novel and starring John Stamos and Anna Gunn. It is produced by Craig Anderson...