Jeffrey Lent was born in Vermont and grew up there and in western New York State, on dairy farms. He studied literature and psychology at Franconia College in New Hampshire and SUNY Purchase. His first novel, IN THE FALL, was a national bestseller and a New York Times Book Review Notable Book for 2000. Lent lives with his wife and two daughters in central Vermont.

Books by Jeffrey Lent

Lost Nation

by Jeffrey Lent

In the Fall

by Jeffrey Lent

Leah, an escaped slave, discovers a wounded soldier who lies dying in a battlefield outside Richmond. After she nurses him back to health, he brings her to his family farm in Vermont as his wife, and they begin a family. Now the mother of three, Leah travels back to the South of her birth and returns with a secret that threatens to destroy what she and Norman had created.