Whitney Scharer earned her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Washington, and her short fiction has appeared in the Bellevue Literary Review, Cimarron Review and other journals. She’s received an Emerging Artist Award in Literature from the St. Botolph Club Foundation, a Somerville Arts Council Artists grant, and been awarded a residency at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. THE AGE OF LIGHT is her first novel.

Photo Credit: Sharona Jacobs

Books by Whitney Scharer

The Age of Light

by Whitney Scharer - Fiction, Historical Fiction

Told in the alternating timelines of 1930s Paris and the battlefields of WWII, this "rapturous and razor sharp" debut novel brings to light the life of Lee Miller, a little known but fearlessly original artist whose legacy remains largely unexplored (Paula McLain, New York Times bestselling author of THE PARIS WIFE).