Denise Giardina is the author of Good King Harry, Storming Heaven, and The Unquiet Earth. The Unquiet Earth won Berea College's Weatherford Award for outstanding writing about Appalachia as well as the American Book Award and the Lillian Smith Award for the year's best Southern fiction. She was born in Bluefield, West Virginia, and grew up in a coal camp. A graduate of West Virginia Wesleyan College and Virginia Theological Seminary, Giardina teaches English and literature at West Virginia State College in Charleston, West Virginia. She is a licensed lay preacher in the Episcopal Church.

Books by Denise Giardina

Saints and Villains

by Denise Giardina

In the charnel house that was Europe in the Second World War, there were few instances of shining moral courage, let along secular sainthood. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the German theologian and Nazi resister was the exception. This emblematic figure risked his life--and finally lost it--through his participation in a failed plot to assassinate Hitler and topple his regime.