Midwives

Chris Bohjalian is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of 25 books. His 25th book, The Jackal's Mistress, is now on sale. He writes literary fiction, historical fiction, thrillers, and (on occasion) ghost stories. His goal is never to write the same book twice. He has published somewhere in the neighborhood of 3.5 million words. His work has been translated into 35 languages and become three movies (Midwives, Secrets of Eden, and Past the Bleachers) and an Emmy-winning TV series (The Flight Attendant). He has two other novels in development for TV series as well. He is also a playwright, including THE CLUB in 2024; MIDWIVES in 2020; and GROUNDED (now WINGSPAN) in 2018. His books have been chosen as Best Books of the Year by the Washington Post, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the Hartford Courant, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, Kirkus Reviews, Bookpage, and Salon. His awards include the Walter Cerf Medal for Outstanding Achievement in the Arts; the Sarah Josefa Hale Award; the ANCA Freedom Award for his work educating Americans about the Armenian Genocide; the ANCA Arts and Letters Award for The Sandcastle Girls), as well as the Saint Mesrob Mashdots Medal; the New England Society Book Award for The Night Strangers); the New England Book Award; Russia's Soglasie (Concord) Award for The Sandcastle Girls); a Boston Public Library Literary Light; a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Trans-Sister Radio; a Best Lifestyle Column for “Idyll Banter” from the Vermont Press Association; and the Anahid Literary Award. His short story “Slot Machine Fever Dreams” was a finalist for Best Short Story from the International Thriller Writers Association and the audio production was an Audie Finalist. His novel, Midwives) was a selection of Oprah's Book Club, and his novel, Hour of the Witch), was a Barnes & Noble Book Club pick. He is a Fellow of the Vermont Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has written for a wide variety of magazines and newspapers, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, Cosmopolitan, Reader's Digest, and The Boston Globe Sunday Magazine. He was a weekly columnist in Vermont for The Burlington Free Press from 1992 through 2015. Chris graduated Phi Beta Kappa and Summa Cum Laude from Amherst College. He has been awarded Honorary Degrees as well from Amherst, Champlain College, and Castleton University. He lives in Vermont with his wife, the photographer Victoria Blewer. Their daughter, Grace Experience, is a young actor in New York City. Among the audiobooks she has narrated are all or part of are The Princess of Las Vegas; Hour of The Witch; The Flight Attendant; The Guest Room; The Lioness; The Sleepwalker; and Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands.