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Sheri Holman

Biography

Sheri Holman

 

Sheri Holman grew up outside of Richmond, Virginia and attended the College of William and Mary where she majored in Theatre. After a few years acting professionally, she made the move to publishing, as the assistant to literary agent Molly Friedrich.

A Stolen Tongue, her first novel, was published by Grove/Atlantic in 1997 and was translated into thirteen languages. The Dress Lodger, also from Grove/Atlantic followed in 2000, and was a national bestseller. It was named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, one of the New York Public Library's Books to Remember, and was long-listed for an Dublin IMPAC award. The Mammoth Cheese (Grove/Atlantic 2003) was her third adult novel, and was short-listed for the UK's Orange Prize. Sheri has also written a novel for children, Sondok: Princess of the Moon and Stars (Scholastic, 2002), and with Jungsoo Kim, won the Daesan Foundation Translation Prize for "The Sobbing Drum of Nakrang: Plays of Inhoon Choi."

Sheri is currently at work on her fourth novel, a multi-generational ghost story which examines the suicidal impulse at the heart of our country's love affair with fear.

Sheri is a founding member and currently serves on the curatorial board of The Moth. She and her family live in Brooklyn, New York.

Sheri Holman

Books by Sheri Holman

by Sheri Holman

In Sunderland, England, a city quarantined by the cholera epidemic of 1831, Gustine, a defiant fifteen-year-old beauty, sells her body to feed her only love: a fragile baby boy. When she meets surgeon Henry Chive, Gustine begins working for him by securing cadavers for his ill-equipped anatomy school. It is a gruesome job that will soon threaten the very things she’s working so hard to protect.