Joanne Leedom-Ackerman is a novelist, short story writer, and
journalist. Her works of fiction include The Dark Path to the River
and No Marble Angels. She has also published fiction and essays in
books and anthologies, including Short Stories of the Civil Rights
Movement; Remembering Arthur Miller; Electric Grace; Snakes: An
Anthology of Serpent Tales; Beyond Literacy; Women For All Seasons;
Fiction and Poetry by Texas Women; The Bicentennial Collection of
Texas Short Stories; What You Can Do.
As a reporter for The Christian Science Monitor early in her
career, Joanne won awards for her nonfiction and has published
hundreds of articles in newspapers and magazines. She has taught
writing at New York University, City University of New York,
Occidental College, and the University of California at Los Angeles
extension. She holds a Master of Arts degree from both Brown
University and Johns Hopkins University, and graduated cum laude
from Principia College.
Joanne is a Vice President of PEN International and the former
International Secretary of PEN International and former Chair of
PEN International’s Writers in Prison Committee. She currently
serves on the boards of PEN American Center, the PEN/Faulkner
Foundation, Poets and Writers, the International Center for
Journalists, the International Crisis Group, and Refugees
International. She is also a member of the Board of Trustees of
Johns Hopkins University, trustee emeritus of Brown University, and
director emeritus of Human Rights Watch. She has served on the
Board of Trustees of Save the Children and on Save the Children’s
Advisory Board on Global Education.
A member of the Advisory Board of the United States Institute of
Peace, Joanne was an adviser on the PBS documentary A Force
More Powerful: A Century of Nonviolent Conflict. She is a member of
the Council on Foreign Relations, PEN American Center, PEN USA,
English PEN, and the Authors Guild.
Joanne is married and has two sons.
“Particularly successful in building suspense . . .
Sensitive and ambitious.” —The New York Times Book Review
“I haven’t enjoyed a book so much in a long
time. . . . There are books you keep reading
because you are convinced that they are well-written and
thematically rich, etc., and then there are the books that are all
those things and also you can’t put them down. The Dark Path to the
River fell in the latter category for me. I fell in love with
Olivia and Jenny . . . and just altogether was taken
in. That doesn’t happen to me often, and I appreciate it a lot. I
didn’t want the pleasure to end. I’m so glad I have your other
novels to look forward to.” —Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood
Bible
“A knockout of a novel—impressive in its scope but at the same time
intimate and personal . . . An extraordinary book.”
—Elisabeth Forsythe Hailey, A Woman of Independent Means
“Joanne Leedom-Ackerman knows suspense like
Hitchcock. . . . But what distinguishes the novel is
its characters. . . . [They] give this fine novel
its power.” —Washington Post
“A book that provokes thought and is most entertaining to read.”
—Los Angeles Times
“The story’s power comes from its daring and imaginative scope, its
sense of humanity and human connectedness
across . . . the ‘small’ events of life and the
larger events which come to be called history.” —The Dallas Morning
News
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