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Ethan Canin

Biography

Ethan Canin

Ethan Canin is the author of seven books, including the story collections EMPEROR OF THE AIR and THE PALACE THIEF, and the novels AMERICA AMERICA, FOR KINGS AND PLANETS and CARRY ME ACROSS THE WATER. He is on the faculty of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and divides his time between Iowa and northern Michigan.

Ethan Canin

Books by Ethan Canin

by Ethan Canin

Breathtaking in its suspense and beauty, Carry Me Across the Water is the story of a man's turbulent journey, with his family, through the central years of the twentieth century.