Joseph Olshan
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Joseph Olshan is an award-winning American novelist.
His first novel, Clara's Heart, won the Times/Jonathan Cape Young Writers' Competition and went on to be made into a feature film starring Whoopi Goldberg in 1988. He is the author of eight novels, the most recent of which, The Conversion, will be published in 2008. In addition to his novels, he has written extensively for newspapers and magazines, including the New York Times, the New York Times Magazine, The Times, The Observer, The Independent, The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, the New York Observer, Harpers Bazaar, People magazine and Entertainment Weekly. Between 1992 and 1994 he was a regular contributor of book reviews for the Wall Street Journal. For most of the 1990's he was a professor of Creative Writing at New York University where he taught both graduate and undergraduate courses.
Joseph Olshan's other novels include the gay-themed Nightswimmer and Vanitas, as well as The Waterline, A Warmer Season, The Sound of Heaven and In Clara's Hands, a sequel to his acclaimed first novel, Clara's Heart.
Joseph Olshan is published in the U.S. by Saint Martin's Press and Berkley Books; and in United Kingdom by Bloomsbury publishing and by Arcadia Books. His work has been translated into sixteen languages. His eighth novel, The Conversion, will be published in April of 2008.
[edit] Novels
- Clara's Heart
- A Warmer Season
- The Waterline
- The Sound of Heaven
- Nightswimmer
- Vanitas
- In Clara's Hands
- The Conversion
author website: www.josepholshan.com
