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Author Description Hello, Good Readers! <br /><br />My new book "This Is Not About Us" is on sale now. You can order it here. <br /><br /><a target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow" href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/688230/this-is-not-about-us-by-allegra-goodman/">https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/bo...</a><br /><br />My novel "Isola" is now in paperback. This is a historical novel based on the true story of a young woman who sails from France to the New World in 1542 and is marooned on an island in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence.<br /><br />I am also the author of several other books including, "Sam," a novel about a young girl's exuberance, wonder, and ambition as she comes of age.<br /><br />Jenna Bush Hager picked "Sam" for her Today Show book club and said, "Sam is about as perfect of a coming-of-age story as I have ever read." <br /><br />About me: I was born in Brooklyn, but I grew up in Honolulu where I did not have to wear shoes in school until fifth grade. <br /><br />I now live in Cambridge, MA and I own boots. In addition to writing fiction, I read a lot and teach on occasion. In my free time, I swim and walk around the city.<br /><br />I have four children, now getting pretty grown up. My oldest son, an economist, reads everything. My second son a legal theorist reads mostly non-fiction. I'm working on this! My third son, an aspiring chemist, loves science fiction, fantasy, and history. My daughter a user experience researcher enjoys biography and YA novels--but only if they have exceptionally beautiful covers.<br /><br />I read fiction, biography, history, poetry, and books about art. I also enjoy discovering authors in translation. <br /><br />When I was a seven-year-old living in Hawaii, I decided to become a novelist--but I began by writing poetry and short stories.<br /><br />In high school and college I focused on short stories, and in June, 1986, I published my first in "Commentary." <br /><br />My first book was a collection of short stories, "Total Immersion." <br /><br />My second book, "The Family Markowitz" is a short story cycle that people tend to read as a novel.<br /><br />Much of my work is about family in its many forms. I am also interested in religion, science, the threats and opportunities of technology, and the exploration of islands, real, and imaginary. <br /><br />My novel, "Kaaterskill Falls" travels with a group of observant Jews to the Catskill Mountains. <br /><br />"Intuition" enters a research a lab, where a young post-doc makes a discovery that excites everybody except for one skeptic--his ex-girlfriend. <br /><br />A rare collection of cookbooks stars in my novel, "The Cookbook Collector." <br /><br />A girl named Honor tries to save her mother in my dystopian YA novel, "The Other Side of the Island."<br /><br />With Michael Prince, I have co-authored a supercool writing textbook. If you teach composition, take a look at "Speaking of Writing: a Brief Rhetoric."<br /><br />If you'd like to learn more about me and about each of my books, check out my website:<br /><br /><a target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow" href="http://allegragoodman.com/">http://allegragoodman.com/</a><br /><br />Find me on Facebook: <br /><br /><a target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow" href="https://www.facebook.com/AllegraGoodman">https://www.facebook.com/AllegraGoodman</a><br /><br />Or on Instagram:<br /><br />@allegragoodmanwriter<br /><br />And of course, you can check out the reviews I post here on Goodreads. I am quite a critical reader, but I use my Goodreads reviews to spotlight books I love and recommend.

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