Melanie Benjamin
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Melanie Benjamin was born in Indianapolis, Indiana and attended college there. She has been an avid reader all her life and firmly believes that a lifetime of reading is the best education a writer can have. After college Melanie married and moved to the Chicago area to raise her children, but the visa mer desire to write was always there in the background. Soon she began writing for local magazines and newspapers before venturing into fiction. As Melanie Hauser she published two contemporary novels. Now writing as Melanie Benjamin, she's incorporated her passion for history and biography into ALICE I HAVE BEEN her first historical novel; THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MRS. TOM THUMB is her second, and was published July 2011. Her book,The Aviator's Wife, made the New York Times bestseller list in 2013. The Swans of Fifth Avenue made the iBooks best seller list in 2016. Melanie and her family still live in the Chicago area where she enjoys writing, taking long walks, and gardening. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre
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- Vedertaget namn
- Benjamin, Melanie
- Namn enligt folkbokföringen
- Hauser, Melanie
- Andra namn
- BENJAMIN, Melanie
HAUSER, Melanie - Födelsedag
- 1962-11-24
- Kön
- female
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Födelseort
- Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
- Bostadsorter
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
Williamsburg, Virginia, USA - Utbildning
- Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis
- Yrken
- writer
- Agent
- Laura Langlie
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The Aviator's Wife by Melanie Benjamin i Early Reviewers (april 2013)
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- Verk
- 12
- Medlemmar
- 6,673
- Popularitet
- #3,668
- Betyg
- 3.8
- Recensioner
- 748
- ISBN
- 116
- Språk
- 9
- Favoritmärkt
- 8
This was a fascinating, sometimes uncomfortable read, skirting the edges of the historical record and playing around in the hazy places left by destroyed letters and missing diaries. It sent me down many Wikipedia rabbit holes (yes, see what I did there), and I feel like I learned a lot about several Victorian figures and the Oxford of the mid-1800s. I was also freshly irritated at Victorian social mores as embodied in Alice's mother and older sister, just as the author intended. If you enjoy reading about this period, or like to look behind the curtain at the creation of beloved literary classics, I would recommend this book to you.… (mer)