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Alyson Richman is an American writer best known for ''The Lost Wife'', a tale of a husband and wife who are separated in a concentration camp during World War II and reunited 60 years later at their grandchildren's wedding. Her novels have been published in more than 25 languages and have received both national and international acclaim.


Background

Richman graduated from
Wellesley College Wellesley College is a private women's liberal arts college in Wellesley, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1870 by Henry and Pauline Durant as a female seminary, it is a member of the original Seven Sisters Colleges, an unofficial g ...
in 1994 and received a
Thomas J. Watson Fellowship The Thomas J. Watson Foundation is a charitable trust formed 1961 in honor of former chairman and CEO of IBM, Thomas J. Watson. The Foundation's stated vision is to empower students “to expand their vision, test and develop their potential, an ...
. She currently lives with her husband and two children on Long Island, New York.


Bibliography

*The Mask Carver's Son: A Novel (Bloomsbury 2001) *The Rhythm of Memory (formerly entitled Swedish Tango: A Novel) (Simon & Schuster 2004) *The Last Van Gogh: A Novel (Berkley 2006) *The Lost Wife (Berkley 2012) *Saint-Exupéry *The Garden of Letters (Berkley 2014) *The Velvet Hours (Berkley 2016) *The Secret of Clouds (Berkley 2019) *The Thread Collectors (2022) *The Time Keepers (2024)


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* * * American women novelists 21st-century American novelists Writers from New York City Wellesley College alumni Living people Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century American women writers Novelists from New York (state) {{US-writer-stub