Wesley Stace is the author of three widely acclaimed novels: the internationally bestselling MISFORTUNE, selected by the Washington Post and Amazon as one of the best novels of the year; BY GEORGE, one of the New York Public Library’s 2007 Books To Remember; and CHARLES JESSOLD, CONSIDERED AS A MURDERER, one of the Wall Street Journal’s best fiction books of 2011. He has also recorded under the name John Wesley Harding, though his recent album, Self-Titled (September 2013), was the first released under his own name. He is the founder of the Cabinet of Wonders variety show, contributes frequently to The New York Times, teaches at Princeton, and lives in Philadelphia.

Books by Wesley Stace

By George

by Wesley Stace

Two years ago, singer-songwriter Wesley Stace blew onto the literary scene with his bold and free-wheeling Dickensian comedy Misfortune. Now, he is back with another wonderfully entertaining and inventive novel. By George is the twisting story of four generations of the curious Fisher family, as told by two boys named George Fisher: one, a schoolboy in the 1970s; the other, a ventriloquist's dummy in the Second World War It's a story of love, loss and family ties, and of two boys separated by years but driven by the same desires: to find a voice, and to be loved.

Misfortune: A Novel

by Wesley Stace